[Tuglist] Help

[Shashidhar V]

On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Radhakrishnan CV wrote:

> On Wed, 6 Mar 2002 at 15:36, Shashidhar V wrote:
> 
>    I am preparing a document in two column format, in which some of
>    the equations are too lengthy and occupy two columns. Is there
>    any way, where I can put these lengthy equations in one column
>    format. I have seen this done in some journals, like IEEE.
>    
>    I want it in the following way:
>    
>    -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>    
>    	text in column 1     		text in column 2
>    
>           		Equation in one column format.
>    
>    	Text continued in column1	text continued column 2.
>    -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>    
>    If its not possible in the above wya, then is it possible to get
>    the equation at the end of the page at least...?
> 
> The above format could affect comprehension. How would you place if 
> the the text in column 2 has another one or more long equations? A 
> better strategy shall be to close the column mode before the long 
> equation, balance the columns, place the equation spanning both the 
> columns and restart the text in column mode again. This way you have 
> sequential chunks of text in both the columns, followed by the 
> equation in its sequential order spanning two columns.
> 
> multicol.sty can help you to do this job. 
> 
> \begin{multicols}{2}
> ...
> your text
> ...
> \end{multicols}
> 
> \begin{equation} % or whatever
> Your long equation
> \end{equation}
> 
> \begin{multicols}{2}
> ...
> ...
> ...
> 
> 
> 
Thanks CVR. I knew that if I had an equation in the 2nd column I will have
a problem. So I tried putting equations at the end of the page. For this I
used long equations in tabular mode and it works. 

-Shashi