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chimanrao
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twocolumn layout

Post by chimanrao »

How do I force text to go in the second column?

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\documentclass[twocolumn]{article}
\begin{document}
Some text in first column
some text in second column
\end{document}
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I can use multicol package, but in this package I am not able to customize the column separator, I wanted it to be a dotted line, but its always coming as a thick line.

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twocolumn layout

Post by localghost »

chimanrao wrote:[...] I can use multicol package, but in this package I am not able to customize the column separator, I wanted it to be a dotted line, but its always coming as a thick line.
At first you should show how you do that without the package. I'm sure this would be possible even when using it and you would have the \columnbreak command to begin the new column. Depending on your goal you may take a look at the parallel or parcolumns package.


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chimanrao
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twocolumn layout

Post by chimanrao »

You have to use \pagebreak if you are not using multicol package.

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Code, edit and compile here:
\documentclass[twocolumn]{article}
\begin{document}
Some Text
\pagebreak
\end{document}
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This is the code with multicol package, you need to use \colummnbreak.

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Code, edit and compile here:
\documentclass[twocolumn]{article}
\usepackage{multicol}
\begin{document}
\thispagestyle{empty}
\begin{multicols}{2}
Column One
\columnbreak
Column Two
\end{multicols}
\end{document}
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I am not able to customize to separator line to be a dotted line.
Investigations are going on :-)

Chimanrao
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