LyX ⇒ Two Column Article - Text rows vertically misaligned

[wegweiser]

Hey everyone,

just tried to typeset an article with two-column layout and am now faced with the problem that the text rows on the right hand are not vertically aligned to the one on the left hand (probably because of section titles?).

Is there any option to force Lyx / Latex to ensure that the text rows are correctly aligned on both sides with respect to each other? This would look a lot more professional. Would be really thankful for your support

Preamble:

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\usepackage{natbib}
\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{a4paper,left=25mm,right=25mm,top=20mm,bottom=20mm}

% wenn pdflatex benutzt wird:
\usepackage{ifpdf}
\ifpdf

% Fonts fuer huebschere PDF-Ansichten
\IfFileExists{lmodern.sty}{\usepackage{lmodern}}{}

\fi % Ende von: wenn pdflatex benutzt wird

% Setzt den Link fuer Spruenge zu Gleitabbildungen
% auf den Anfang des Gleitobjekts und nicht aufs Ende
\usepackage[figure*]{hypcap}

% Ein PDF-Lesezeichen für das Inhaltsverzeichnis wird hinzugefügt
\let\myTOC\tableofcontents
\renewcommand{\tableofcontents}{%
 \pdfbookmark[1]{\contentsname}{}
 \myTOC }

% redefine the \LyX macro for PDF bookmarks
\def\LyX{\texorpdfstring{%
  L\kern-.1667em\lower.25em\hbox{Y}\kern-.125emX\@}
  {LyX}}

The text is just a lorem ipsum text withouth any specific formattings, only a title and a section title.

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[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

welcome to the board!

Yes, the section headings are also causing this, and further variable spacing. For perfectly aligned lines, such headings should have a height of a multiple of \baselineskip. Variable spaces such as \parskip should be made fixed.

Perhaps it's easier to use the multicol package with section headings spanning the whole width and two-column text enviromments.

If you plan to publish the article, I guess you may use a class of the publisher, which would take care of it.

Stefan

[wegweiser]

Thank you very much for your response. So far I don't plan to publish it but do you maybe have a Lyx template for me that ensures the perfect alignment which I could try to customise to my needs? I guess that also the Titles and spacings between sections have to be properly defined by the template.