Page Layout ⇒ multicol | Multi-column Environment seemingly undefined

[quigley]

First post so I hope this is in the right place.

I'm trying to use the multicol package to balance the columns above the bibliography (as in revtex) in a two-columned document. However its throwing up two errors.

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! LaTeX Error: Environment multicol undefined.
! LaTeX Error: \begin{document} ended by \end{multicol}.

I've searched around a bit but all the help I could find was for people who had missed out \usepackage{multicol}. I'm using Miktex so I'm pretty sure the correct package is installed. Code is below, with most of the irrelevent (I think) stuff removed.

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\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,titlepage]{article}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage{amsfonts,amssymb,amsmath,mathbbol}
\usepackage{graphics,graphicx,epsfig}
\usepackage{rotating,subfig}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage[margin=2.5cm]{geometry}
\captionsetup{font={small,it},labelfont=small}

\begin{document}
\begin{multicol}{2}
\input{intro}
\input{theory}
\input{method}
\input{results}
\input{conc}
\end{multicol}{2}

\bibliographystyle{apsrev4-1}
{\footnotesize \bibliography{luckyrefs}}
\end{document}

Any ideas?

[localghost]

The environment is called multicols. See the multicol manual for details.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[quigley]

Ok that was stupid of me, however \usepackage{multicols} is now producing a different error.

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! LaTeX Error: File `multicols.sty' not found.

I have now switched machines and am using Ubuntu with textlive-full installed and up to date. So the package should be there I know we've moved away from the original topic now but any suggestions?

[localghost]

Did I say that the package is called multicols? No. The environment name is what you have to correct. m(

[quigley]

Sorry, my mistake again, I'm being dense this morning, lack of sleep is catching up.

Thanks