[Tuglist] Help

[Radhakrishnan CV]

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}
...
...
...


-- 
Radhakrishnan