[Tugindia] need some help in twocolumn

[Indrajit Lahiri]

> I am typesetting a document using LaTeX. In this I am passing twocolumn option to the \documentclass. But I need articletitle, >authorname and abstract to be at the center of the page in a single column and rest of the document in two column. Please >suggest me how to tackle  this problem.
>Raghavendra Varma


Do not give the twocolumn option to the \documentclass, instead try the following :
In the preamble write 
\usepackage{multicol}   
after the abstract use 
\begin{multicols}{2} 
then type the document
\end{multicols}

With regards
Indrajit Lahiri