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Re: Wide table of two columns

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This thread is full of code, can you post the MWE you are referring to?

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Wide table of two columns

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Yes, here's the actual working code :

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Code, edit and compile here:
\documentclass[12pt,letterpaper,twoside]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[french]{babel}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage{textcomp}
\usepackage[total={6in,10in},left=1.5in,top=0.5in,includehead,includefoot]{geometry}
\usepackage{microtype}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\begin{document}
\section{Objectif-standard visé}
\begin{multicols}{2}
\setlength{\columnseprule}{.4pt}
\subsection*{Objectif}
\subsubsection*{Énoncé de la compétence}
Analyser différentes situations ou phénomènes physiques reliés aux ondes, à l'optique et à la physique moderne à partir de principes fondamentaux.
\subsubsection*{Éléments de la compétence}
\begin{enumerate}[itemsep=1ex,leftmargin=0.5cm,label=\textbullet]
\item Appliquer les principes de base de la physique à la description des vibrations, des ondes et de leur propagation.
\item Appliquer les lois de l'optique géométrique.
\item Appliquer les caractéristiques des ondes aux phénomènes lumineux.
\item Analyser quelques situations à partir des notions de la physique moderne.
\item Vérifier expérimentalement quelques lois et principes reliés aux ondes, à l'optique et à la physique moderne.
\end{enumerate}
%%%% on a separate column (right column) :
\subsection*{Standard}
\subsubsection*{Critères de performance}
 
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It needs two adjustements :

1. Changing the right margin of everything in the multicols environment.

2. An option to tell LaTeX to not use any hyphenation inside the multicols environment.
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Wide table of two columns

Post by Johannes_B »

With narrow columns, it is better to use ragged text, but you explicitly don't want that.

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Code, edit and compile here:
\documentclass[12pt,letterpaper,twoside]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[french]{babel}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage[total={6in,10in},left=1.5in,top=0.5in,includehead,includefoot]{geometry}
\usepackage{microtype}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage[none]{hyphenat}%horrible
\begin{document}
\section{Objectif-standard visé}
\setlength{\columnseprule}{.4pt}
\setlength{\columnsep}{34pt}
\begin{multicols}{2}
\subsection*{Objectif}
\subsubsection*{Énoncé de la compétence}
Analyser différentes situations ou phénomènes physiques reliés aux ondes, à l'optique et à la physique moderne à partir de principes fondamentaux.
\subsubsection*{Éléments de la compétence}
\begin{enumerate}[itemsep=1ex,leftmargin=0.5cm,label=\textbullet]
\item Appliquer les principes de base de la physique à la description des vibrations, des ondes et de leur propagation.
\item Appliquer les lois de l'optique géométrique.
\item Appliquer les caractéristiques des ondes aux phénomènes lumineux.
\item Analyser quelques situations à partir des notions de la physique moderne.
\item Vérifier expérimentalement quelques lois et principes reliés aux ondes, à l'optique et à la physique moderne.
\end{enumerate}
%%%% on a separate column (right column) :
\subsection*{Standard}
\subsubsection*{Critères de performance}
 
 
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Re: Wide table of two columns

Post by Cham »

Hmm, you're right. It's horrible without the hyphenation.

Thanks for the margin. It's working great.

I think this case is now solved. That block of text is already much better looking than the original Word version 8-)
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