document-classesmulticol
I am writing a document using the report class in two column mode, but I need a \section to spread across both columns, but how can I set that?
Something like
\documentclass[10pt,danish,a4paper,twoside,twocolumn]{report}
\input{preamble.tex}
\begin{document}
% This section should spread over both columns
\section{Name}
\lipsum[1-3]
\end{document}
\documentclass[12pt]{scrartcl}
\usepackage{biblatex,lipsum,multicol}
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}
\appto{\bibfont}{\footnotesize}
\appto{\bibsetup}{\raggedright}
\begin{document}
\nocite{*}
\lipsum[1-2]
\begin{multicols}{2}
\printbibliography
\end{multicols}
\end{document}
@Andrew: I usually try to keep the amount of explanation I add to my code in a relation to the amount and helpfulness of the information provided by the person asking the question (think of who's providing the MWE here, and who should be). But since you're asking... :-)
So this code mainly relies on biblatex's \bibsetup and \bibfont, which is the probably the safest (and most elegant) way to customize a bibliography's style. I'm appending \footnotesize (that's 10pt in a 12pt environment) to whatever else is already contained in \bibfont. I'm also switching to a right rag, which is a nice thing in bibliographies, and a must when working with columns that narrow. Then there's multicols, restricted to the bibliography only. One might also try using \twocolumn and \onecolumn instead of the multicol package.
\appto{\bibsetup}{\raggedright\twocolumn}
\AtEndBibliography{\onecolumn}
Un-tested, though.
Please always supply a test document.
This is easy if you are prepared to add some space manually in the second column.
The wide text is just placed naturally in the first column together with some negative space so that it overprints the second column. then you just need to add a \vspace to leave a gap.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{multicol}
\def\a{1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 }
\def\b{2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 }
\def\c{3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 }
\def\d{4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 }
\def\aa{\a\a\par 11 11 \a\a\a\a\par 11 11 11\a 11 11 1 1 \a\a}
\def\bb{\b\b\b\par 22 22 222 \b\b\b\b\b\par\b\b\b\b\b\b}
\def\cc{\c\c\c\c\c\c\par\c 3\c3\c3\c3\c3\c3}
\def\dd{\d\d\d\d\par\d444\d}
\begin{document}
\begin{multicols}{2}
\aa\a\aa\a
\smallskip
\noindent\fbox{\parbox{\dimexpr\textwidth-2\fboxsep\relax}{%
\def\A{A A A A\dotfill A A A A\dotfill}
\A\A\A\A\A\A\A\A\A\A\A\A\A\A}}\kern-\textwidth
\par\smallskip
\bb\b\bb\b
\cc
\vspace{1.8cm}
\c\cc
\dd\dd\dd\dd\dd\dd
\end{multicols}
\end{document}
Best Answer
There is a switch:
\onecolumn:But the section has to start on a new page. Go back to twocolumn with? Yes,
\twocolumn.