On Wednesday, 28 Feb 2018 at 09:56, Sharon Kimble wrote: > I have this as a recipe -
[...] > How can I have the ingredients in a left-most column and the method in a > right-most column please? So that everything below the index entries is > in 2-column mode which ends after the citation. And it can then be > renewed below the next index entries of the next entry, ad infinitum. > > This is for an org-mode document that is exported to latex and built > into a pdf file. You could use special blocks (section 12.10.10 of org manual). See attached example for your recipe. Does require LaTeX magic...
#+title: Recipes
#+author: Professor Eric S Fraga
#+macro: lastchange 2018.02.26 11:14
#+options: toc:nil num:nil
* Recipes
#+begin_export latex
\definecolor{verypaleblue}{rgb}{0.95,0.95,1}
\makeatletter\newenvironment{ingredients}{\begin{lrbox}{\@tempboxa}\begin{minipage}{0.3\textwidth}}{\end{minipage}\end{lrbox}\colorbox{verypaleblue}{\usebox{\@tempboxa}}}\makeatother
\makeatletter\newenvironment{steps}{\begin{lrbox}{\@tempboxa}\begin{minipage}{0.6\textwidth}\centering}{\end{minipage}\end{lrbox}\usebox{\@tempboxa}}\makeatother
#+end_export
** Date Bread
#+begin_ingredients
/12 ounces stoned dates/\\
/1 teaspoonful bicarbonate of soda/\\
/1 cupful boiling water/\\
/4 ounces margarine/\\
/1 egg/\\
/2 cups flour/\\
/$\frac{1}{2}$ cup sugar/\\
/pinch of salt/
#+end_ingredients
#+begin_steps
- Cut dates into pieces, shake soda over the dates, and pour water over.
- Add margarine cut into small pieces and stir well.
- Break egg into mixture, then add sugar and flour.
- Divide into two loaf tins and bake 90 minutes in moderate oven, Regulo 4.
#+end_steps
-- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 27.0.50, Org release_9.1.6-191-g90607d
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