[OS X TeX] strange error going from one to two columns...

[Alan Munn]

At 9:32 PM -0500 4/23/07, Axel E. Retif wrote:
>On 23 Apr, 2007, at 20:45, Alan Litchfield wrote:
>
>>Insert a \quad before \section{Introduction}
>
>It works, and I don't have the slightest idea why! Could you be so 
>kind as to explain why it does work?
>

Yes, please do, and also why it has to be literally before, i.e:

\quad
\section{}

doesn't fix it, but

\quad\section{}

does.

Alan

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