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Creating two columns in article, report or book

11. August 2007 by tom 117 Comments

Three different styles have to be distinguished when creating multiple columns in a Latex document. Either we want the whole document to have two columns, single pages or only part of a page. In order to do so, three different Latex commands are used… Whole document (using article to write a paper): The only thing … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Introduction, LaTeX, Tips & tricks Tagged: book, columnsep, columnseprule, documentclass, LaTeX, letter, minipage, report, twocolumn

\documentclass{book, report, article or letter}

9. July 2007 by tom 1 Comment

A LaTeX document starts with the command \documentclass [option] {type}. The most common document-classes in LaTex are: book report article letter All of them are similar, except letter. The main differences can be summerised as follows: An “article” does not provide “chapter”, whereas “book” and “report” do. Thus, the first structuring element of an “article” … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Introduction, LaTeX Tagged: abstract, article, book, documentclass, LaTeX, letter, report, titlepage, twoside
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