Page Layout ⇒ Abstract and double column pages

[Licking_Lynx]

I am very new to lyx and am trying to write a lab report. I want to have the abstract across the whole page but the rest of the document in two column and have no idea how to achive this. Any help is much appreciated.

[bjd116]

As far as I know, most of the time when you use the 'abstract' command

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\begin{abstract} 
\end{abstract}

the particular document class will span the abstract over the entire page. To place your document in two column form, use the format

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\documentclass[twocolumn]{your document class}

. If you are new to LaTeX I suggest looking through the this forum at the beginner's documents as well as the Wiki page http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/.

[Licking_Lynx]

This isnt working. I can create and abstract but lyx puts it in double columns like the rest of the text not across the whole page like the title and authour.

[archeryguru2000]

Maybe this will help.


~~archery~~

[frabjous]

Post a minimal working example showing the problem. It is impossible to diagnose otherwise.

Or if you think your problem is LyX-specific, post in the LyX forum.