Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Date: 1996/06/13

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>How do u get two columns text in a page? Do I have to include it in
>the documentclass options?

There are two ways. Either you use LaTeX's \twocolumn command, which will however not balance the columns and will not allow you to switch between one- and two-column mode on one and the same page. Or you use the multicol package, which implements the multicols environment, which lets you switch between one-, two-, … , five-column mode without starting a new page. The package is available on CTAN (ftp.tex.ac.uk).

Alain Kessi