multicoltwo-column
I have a twocolumn layout which is rendering quite well except for the last page. The incriminated page contains a bibliography with several URLs, each one being cut on several lines.
For better readability, I would like to expand this part of the document to one column. I experimented with the multicol package but it's a pain when working with a lot of figures, tables, algorithms or any kind of float.
Is there any other way to achieve this result?
The widetext environment changes the formatting from two-column to one-column to better accommodate very long equations that are more easily read when typeset to the full width of the page:
\documentclass[twocolumn]{revtex4-1}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{widetext}
\begin{document}
\lipsum[1]
\begin{widetext}
\[
a + b + c + d + e + f + g + h + i + j + k + l + m + n + o + p + q
\]
\end{widetext}
\lipsum[1]
\end{document}
Note that the lipsum package and commands is used only for adding dummy text.
As noted in comments you could define an environment that does nothing if passed 1 but uses multicols otherwise:
\newenvironment{mymcol}[1]
{\ifnum#1=1
\let\endmulticols\par
\def\multicols##1{\par}%
\fi
\begin{multicols}{#1}}%
{\end{multicols}}
\makeatother
\begin{mymcol}{2}
\Column{
Name1 & Value1. \\
Name2 & Value2. \\
Name3 & Value3. \\
}
\Column{
Name4 & Value4. \\
Name5 & Value5. \\
}
\end{mymcol}
Best Answer
switch to one column with
\onecolumnbefore the last page