On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, Arnab Rana wrote:
> If I write a document in two columns, then the second column on the last page is
>shorter than the first. Is there a way to automatically balance the amount of text
>in the two columns, which will give a better appearance. (In MS-Word two columns can
>be made even by changing back to a single-column section after the two-column
>section.)
The package multicol can do this. In the preamble put
\usepackage{multicol}
and then in the text in TeX:
\begin{multicols}{n}
where n is the number of columns.
See multicol.lyx, an example that comes with LyX.
