Page Layout ⇒ two column book

[sachinrajsharma]

Hi,
I want to spread the heading in the attached document on the top of the doc which is "HIV / AIDS Myths and Facts" that means I want to write this heading in a way such that it will spread over the two columns on the top i.e. on the top of the left hand column which starts from "HIV/AIDS has been visible in the United States" and other right hand side column which starts with heading "How is HIV transmitted?"

I am attaching tex file and pdf file both for reference.

Regards,

Sachin Sharma

[cgnieder]

Before presenting a solution to your problem at hand (using \twocolumn) I have a few remarks regarding your text:

• Instead of ending a paragraph with \\ you should leave the \\ completely out. An empty line in the source will terminate a paragraph
• Instead of saying \noindent at the beginning of each paragraph
  set the length \parindent to 0 once in the preamble.
• instead of inserting section headings with \textbf{heading} use \section{heading} and customize the appearance, e.g., with titlesec
• instead of enumerating lists manually use an enumeration environment like {enumerate}. Its appearance can be customized with enumitem
• Don't use "quote" but ``quote'' in order to get
  true quotation marks
• it might be a good idea to adjust \hfuzz in a twocolumn document
  so TeX doesn't complain too often about overfull boxes if a line protrudes into the margin.

For the problem at hand I'd not use the class option twocolumn but use \twocolumn manually. It has an optional argument for placing a title that spans over the whole textwidth.

I have done all of the above in the document you posted with the effect that now there are no warnings at all instead of the dozens of underfull and overfull boxes you had. I'll attach it below.

Regards

[sachinrajsharma]

Hi,
Thanks a lot , it was really wonderful and got solution. One query about it that on the third page the distance between two column in not even could you please give clarity on that also.

Thanks once again.

Regards,

Sachin

[cgnieder]

That can be achieved using the multicol package. Use

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\usepackage{multicol}

in the preamble and replace

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\twocolumn[\LARGE\bfseries HIV / AIDS Myths and Facts]

with

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\begin{multicols}{2}[
  \begin{center}
    \LARGE\bfseries HIV / AIDS Myths and Facts
  \end{center}]

and add

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\end{multicols}

at the end of the document.

Regards