I'd like to make the two columns of the last page of equal length but starting the new column INSIDE the IEEEbiography
environment. I have four authors in the last page, the second one has a long biography than the other three, therefore, with \newpage
after the second author, the left column looks longer than the right one. You can think of the layout as a square followed by a long rectangle on the left and two squares on the right. So, I basically, need to break the line and start the new column INSIDE the IEEEbiography
environment of the second author (the rectangle). When I use \newpage
inside IEEEbiography
, I got an error message "Tex capacity exceeded, sorry". When I use \pagebreak
, the layout messes up: a huge white space is created in the left column between the first and second authors, and the third and fourth authors go to a new page. I tried many solutions on the forum for similar questions, specifically, \balance
, \newpage
, \pagebreak
, \vfill
, \flushend
, \multicolumns
, but none of them has worked out correctly as I want.
\begin{IEEEbiography}[{\includegraphics[width=1in,height=1.25in,clip,keepaspectratio]{author1.eps}}]%
{Author1} received the ...
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line 3
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\end{IEEEbiography}
\begin{IEEEbiography}
[{\includegraphics[width=1in,height=1.25in,clip,keepaspectratio]{author2.eps}}]%
{Author2} is ...
line 2
line 3
line 4
% New paragraph
line 5
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== > a break of this column should be here to have two equal columns \\
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\end{IEEEbiography}
\newpage\noindent
\begin{IEEEbiography}[{\includegraphics[width=1in,height=1.25in,clip,keepaspectratio]{author3.eps}}]%
{Author3} received the ...
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\end{IEEEbiography}
\begin{IEEEbiography}[{\includegraphics[width=1in,height=1.25in,clip,keepaspectratio]{author4.eps}}]%
{Author4} received the ...
line 2
line 3
line 4
\end{IEEEbiography}
Best Answer
You should never balance biographies yourself unless you are not going to submit this work to a journal. The publication office will take care of this and making them roughly equal will be enough.
But a terrible example is putting a dummy no photo bibliograhy if this is a burning issue. There are more hacks needed if you use table of contents but this is already an ugly solution.