+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | twocolumns | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Abbreviation: ã|\twcã% Parameters: ã|noneã% ã|Description:ã% The \twocolumns markup formats text in two columns with identical width. The column widths and gutter are calculated automatically within the specified margins. The default width of both columns is 48% of the galleywidth. The default gutter width is 4% of the galleywidth. The Flexible format allows the user to use single column, two column, and three column text interchangeably on the current page by entering one of the markup choices at the desired point in the text. The flexible format will balance the text columns whenever the number of columns changes. For example, if the author changes the multiple column format by typing a different markup TEXT1 will automatically balance the columns it is currently processing and change to a new number of columns. These instructions can be inserted at any point on the page. The author may want to handle tables and other large blocks of text by returning to a single column for the table by typing \onecolumn immediately before the table and returning to two or three column formatting immediately after the table. All running head, running foot, and inserts are printed across the full single column width that prints across the top of the current page. Footnotes will be printed across the full width at the bottom of the page. ã|Example:ã% \twocolumns \nin Hebrew is called a Semitic language because it has its roots in Shem, one of the sons of Noah. Viewing Jerusalem as its center, it is related to the northern, rougher Aramaic, and to the southern, more polished Arabic. It has a freshness, simplicity and power that few modern languages possess. Bounds of the ancient Semitic tongue were approximately the Mediterranean Sea on the west, the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers on the easy, the mountains of Armenia on the north, and the coast of Arabia on the south. Consider the first character, N . . . +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | Hebrew is called languages pos- | | a Semitic lan- sess. Bounds | | guage because it of the ancient | | has its roots Semitic tongue | | in Shem, one were approxi- | | of the sons of mately the Medi- | | Noah. View- terranean Sea on | | ing Jerusalem as the west, the | | its center, it Euphrates and | | is related to Tigris Rivers on | | the northern, the easy, the | | rougher Aramaic, mountains of Ar- | | and to the menia on the | | southern, more north, and the | | polished Arabic. coast of Ara- | | It has a fresh- bia on the | | ness, simplic- south. Consider | | ity and power the first char- | | that few modern acter, N . . . | | | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ã|Notes:ã% To change the column width or the gutter width, use the \multicolumnformat markup. You cannot specify \twocolumns inside of \vbox, \drawbox, \paragraphbox, or a floating \figure (non floating figures, \nofloat, are ok). If you want footnotes and figures to print in one column instead of across both columns, use the \fixedformat markup.