On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 10:08:47AM +0300, Tuukka Toivonen wrote:
> 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.
A different solution (without the limitation of multicol [floats, footnotes])
is to put the following lines in the preamble:
\usepackage{flushend}
PS: If anyone is intrested, the packages in sttools allows more flexibility
with twocolumn mode:
Using these packages is possible: to balance columns on the last page in
twocolumn mode; to place double-column float at bottom of page;
to insert some wide onecolumn material in any place of twocolumn page
and to do some other things.
