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Adding a column separator line and extra space between columns in LaTeX

25. January 2016 by tom Leave a Comment

Documents with two columns are very popular, especially in academic publishing. In other scenarios, it may be desirable to have three or even more columns. In this brief post, I show how to add a separator line between columns as well as how to adapt the space between columns, for a better visual separation of … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Introduction, LaTeX, Package, Tips & tricks Tagged: article, column, journal, LaTeX, line, multi column, multicol, rule, separation, space, twocolumn

LaTeX documentclass options illustrated

13. February 2013 by tom 22 Comments

The three most commonly used standard document-classes in LaTeX include: article, report and book. A number of global options allows customization of certain elements of the document by the author. Different document-classes might have different default settings. The following post illustrates available options with figures, provides alternatives and highlights the default option for each document-class. … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Introduction, LaTeX, Tips & tricks Tagged: 10pt, 11pt, 12pt, a4paper, article, book, documentclass, draft, fleqn, font size, landscape, LaTeX, leqno, letterpaper, notitlepage, onecolumn, oneside, openany, openright, options, report, titlepage, twocolumn, twoside

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




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