My goal is for my document to have a standard article documentclass to use the pages for an essay setting, but at the end I need to include newspaper articles and would like to format the latter pages as two columns for these newspaper articles. Does anyone have a suggestion as to how I should approach this? Tables are not reasonable for obvious reasons and I am not sure what other tools are at my disposal.
So generally I would like to format my document as
Essay Body
References
(Two Column Start)
Articles
(Two Column End)
Edit:
Can I force all of the remainder into the left column only instead of having it balance? Also can I increase the space between the columns slightly?
Best Answer
You can use the
multicol
package. Add\usepackage{multicol}
to your document preamble, and wrap the text you want in columns in\begin{multicols}{n}
and\end{multicols}
wheren
is the number of columns. For more information, see the package documentation.However, you cannot use floats that span just one column;
multicol
can only handle the starred float environments, which span both columns.The
multicol
package automatically balances the columns; if you don't want this, use themulticols*
envoironment.