I'm using a two column article as in the link here. I'm new to LaTeX and am facing difficulty in setting the separation between the columns. I've read questions but all of them suggest to use \setlength{\columnsep}{width} I've used the same but the column separation does not change on any value. I suppose I'm going wrong with the dimensions. Please suggest where am I going wrong and what's the solution.
[Tex/LaTex] setting separation between columns in two column mode
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Since I battled with this a while as well and I couldn't find any helpful discussions on the web, I just read carefully the manual! Maybe this is a feature newer than this topic, so it wasn't around the days the question was asked. But I like to provide an easy way to achieve multiple columns with the glossaries package so that others might find a solution faster.
One only needs the additional glossary-mcols package which provides exactly that.
\documentclass{scrreprt}
\usepackage{glossaries}
\usepackage{glossary-mcols}
\makeglossaries
\renewcommand*{\glspostdescription}{} % Removes dots at the end of each entry.
\begin{document}
% Some entries.
\newglossaryentry{glos:begin}{name=Begin, description={This is the beginning.}}
\newglossaryentry{glos:bold}{name=Bold, description=\nopostdesc}
\newglossaryentry{glos:bear}{name=Bear, description={A bear can make you run fast.}}\newglossaryentry{glos:chicken}{name=Chicken, description={Tasty...}}
\newglossaryentry{glos:elephant}{name=Elephant, description=\nopostdesc}
\newglossaryentry{glos:tantalos}{name=Tantalos, description={Just a random name.}}
\newglossaryentry{glos:zebra}{name=Zebra, description=\nopostdesc}
% Use the entries so that they show up in the glossary.
\gls{glos:begin}
\gls{glos:bold}
\gls{glos:bear}
\gls{glos:chicken}
\gls{glos:elephant}
\gls{glos:tantalos}
\gls{glos:zebra}
% Print the glossary with one of the mcol styles.
\printglossary[style=mcolindex, title=Index]
\end{document}
Since beamerposter style is based on beamer, the columns' options are also inherited from beamer. Hence, simply copy/pasting for convenience from the manual, below are these alignment options for
\begin{columns}[option]
...
\end{columns}
∙ b will cause the bottom lines of the columns to be vertically aligned.
∙ c will cause the columns to be centered vertically relative to each other. Default, unless the global option t is used.
∙ onlytextwidth is the same as totalwidth=\textwidth.
∙ t will cause the first lines of the columns to be aligned. Default if global option t is used.
∙ T is similar to the t option, but T aligns the tops of the first lines while t aligns the so-called baselines of the first lines. If strange things seem to happen in conjunction with the t option (for example if a graphic suddenly “drops down” with the t option instead of “going up,”), try using this option instead.
∙ totalwidth=⟨width⟩ will cause the columns to occupy not the whole page width, but only ⟨width⟩,
all told.
Best Answer
Use
cmorininstead of font points to separate the columns:Will produce: