When \documentclass[a4paper, twocolumn]
is declared, is there a way to change the size of the vertical rule created by LaTeX? (I need to increase it)
Any ideas?
rulestwo-column
When \documentclass[a4paper, twocolumn]
is declared, is there a way to change the size of the vertical rule created by LaTeX? (I need to increase it)
Any ideas?
Best Answer
One option would be to redefine
\@outputdblcol
(from the LaTeX kernel) to let the rule have some depth; the following example shows this redefinition (signaled with%NEW
); I used a depth equal to2ex
, but you can use any other value; of course, this modification will apply to all the document:A fragment of the bottom part of the first page showing the extension:
With the help of the
etoolbox
package, the code reduces to (using now a3ex
depth):