Time for action – creating a two-column landscape document

We shall change the orientation of our example to landscape. We would also like to typeset our text in two columns:

1. Add the options landscape and twocolumn to the \documentclass statement of our example, as follows:

   \documentclass[a4paper,12pt,landscape,twocolumn]{book}

2. Typeset and see how the layout has changed:

   

What just happened?

By using the landscape option, we switched the orientation. By stating the twocolumn option, we caused the body text to be divided into two columns.

Note

There's a command \twocolumn[opening text] starting a two-column page with optional opening text over the whole width. \onecolumn begins a one-column page.

If you'd like to balance the columns on the last page or if you wish to have more than two columns, use the multicols package.

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