I create a document in two-column-layout with LaTeX (and Koma-Script, if that is relevant). The two-column-layout is defined in documentclass. The last page of an chapter fills the left column first – the result is that both column are of different length. How can I balance that?
EDIT: flushend
like mentioned in the answer of TH. doesn't work for me. Maybe it is conflicting with some other package I use?
EDIT 2: OK, after I tested with lipsum like suggested from Joseph Wright I saw it balanced. I tried a little bit and could find out, that flushend only balances the columns in the last chapter, not in all of them. Knowing that, I could see, that it is true for my document too, the last chapter has balanced columns. How can I achieve it for all of them? Here my short example:
\documentclass[a4paper, 10pt, twocolumn, DIV=18]{scrbook}
\usepackage{flushend}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\chapter{test}
\lipsum
\lipsum
\chapter{second}
\lipsum
\lipsum
\chapter{third}
\lipsum
\lipsum
\end{document}
Best Answer
You can also use
\usepackage{multicol}
and use the\begin{multicols}{x}
environment wherex
is the amount of columns. They will automatically align themselves according to what you want.