Thanks for the suggestion but since I am using \twocolumn before
\begin{document}
with the command
\begin{multicols}{3}
yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
\end{multicols}
I get
yy yy yy xxxxxxx
yy yy yy xxxxxxx
xxxxxxx xxxxxxx
David
> Have you looked at the package multicols yet (assuming you're using
> Latex)?