General ⇒ multicol | Dictionary-like Headers

[legolie]

Hi everybody,

I'm a french student and my english is not very good, so I hope I won't make to many "faux-amis"

I'm making a "alumni book" (is it the right expression?) for the school. I want to have a dictionary-like heading, with fancyhdr.

I don't have any problem with monoline heading, but I can't make multiline heading.

A short example to show what happens:

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\documentclass[a4paper,10pt,titlepage,twoside]{article}
\usepackage{multicol}

\begin{document}

\begin{multicols}{3}

\raggedright
\markright{test \\ test}

\end{multicols}

\end{document}

Error:
"! Argument of \mult@@cols has an extra }."

If I change raggedright to \begin{flushleft}\end{flushleft}, the error is:
"! Use of \@item doesn't match its definition.
\@ifnextchar ... \reserved@d =#1\def \reserved@a {"

Without multicol, or \\ or raggedright, it works (at least it compiles)

I very bad at TeX, and I didn't achieve to understand the way markboth works.

I have a standard texlive installation on Linux.

Any ideas?

Regards

[legolie]

I understood the problem (Actually, someone told me)

raggedright change the definition of \\

so I replaced raggedright by \setlength{\rightskip}{\fill}

And it works

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

you could use \newline instead of \\.

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\markright{test\newline test}

Stefan

[legolie]

Actually, it compiled with newlin, but it messes up alignements in the headings.

I couldn't flushright the mark (it was strange, it looks like a combination of centering and flushright).

\\ did what I wanted to, so I prefered to use \\.

But thanks for the proposition.