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I am writing an article in LaTeX and I would like to display some content in two column layout. In the left column a matrix and in the right column a list of items. I have tried with tabular environment but it does not work as I want.
My question is how to create a two column area in a LeTeX document (or something similar) and be able to put certain content to left and right column? I do not want to create a two-column layout for whole document, only for part of it.
Use p{width} for your column specifiers instead of l/r/c.
\begin{tabular}{|p{1cm}|p{3cm}|}
This text will be wrapped & Some more text \\
\end{tabular}
EDIT: (based on the comments)
\begin{table}[ht]
\centering
\begin{tabular}{p{0.35\linewidth} | p{0.6\linewidth}}
Column 1 & Column2 \\ \hline
This text will be wrapped & Some more text \\
Some text here & This text maybe wrapped here if its tooooo long \\
\end{tabular}
\caption{Caption}
\label{tab:my_label}
\end{table}
we get:
Use the figure* environment. So instead of
\begin{figure}[ht] % I typically use ht
\centering
...
\end{figure}
you should use
\begin{figure*}[ht]
\centering
...
\end{figure*}
This also works for tables (i.e. table*). Hope this helps!
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Best Answer
Load the multicol package, like this
\usepackage{multicol}. Then use:If you omit the
\columnbreak, the columns will balance automatically.