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42 The aim for this chapter is to show how the LaTeX package
46 can be used in a LyX document.
47 As LyX doesn't support the
51 package natively yet, we have to use some small hacks.
52 By reading this section it should be obvious how to do this.
62 package allows switching between one and multicolumn format on the same
64 Footnotes are handled correctly (for the most part), but will be placed
65 at the bottom of the page and not under each column.
66 LaTeX's float mechanism, however, is partly disabled in the current implementat
68 At the moment only page-wide floats can be used within the scope of the
77 \added_space_bottom -2ex
78 If you want to have two columns in your text, you have use LaTeX mode to
85 at the point where you want the two column layout to start, and then
91 where you want it to end.
105 The Adventure of the Empty House
111 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
116 It was in the spring of the year 1894 that all London was interested, and
117 the fashionable world dismayed, by the murder of the Honourable Ronald
118 Adair under most unusual and inexplicable circumstances.
119 The public has already learned those particulars of the crime which came
120 out in the police investigation, but a good deal was suppressed upon that
121 occasion, since the case for the prosecution was so overwhelmingly strong
122 that it was not necessary to bring forward all the facts.
123 Only now, at the end of nearly ten years, am I allowed to supply those
124 missing links which make up the whole of that remarkable chain.
125 The crime was of interest in itself, but that interest was as nothing to
126 me compared to the inconceivable sequel, which afforded me the greatest
127 shock and surprise of any event in my adventurous life.
128 Even now, after this long interval, I find myself thrilling as I think
129 of it, and feeling once more that sudden flood of joy, amazement, and increduli
130 ty which utterly submerged my mind.
131 Let me say to that public, which has shown some interest in those glimpses
132 which I have occasionally given them of the thoughts and actions of a very
133 remarkable man, that they are not to blame me if I have not shared my knowledge
134 with them, for I should have considered it my first duty to do so, had
135 I not been barred by a positive prohibition from his own lips, which was
136 only withdrawn upon the third of last month.
144 \layout Subsubsection
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149 The same pattern is used when you want more than two columns.
150 (You can have more than 3 columns if you want , but that might not be very
151 pleasant for the eye.)
163 It can be imagined that my close intimacy with Sherlock Holmes had interested
164 me deeply in crime, and that after his disappearance I never failed to
165 read with care the various problems which came before the public.
166 And I even attempted, more than once, for my own private satisfaction,
167 to employ his methods in their solution, though with indifferent success.
168 There was none, however, which appealed to me like this tragedy of Ronald
170 As I read the evidence at the inquest, which led up to a verdict of willful
171 murder against some person or persons unknown, I realized more clearly
172 than I had ever done the loss which the community had sustained by the
173 death of Sherlock Holmes.
174 There were points about this strange business which would, I was sure,
175 have specially appealed to him, and the efforts of the police would have
176 been supplemented, or more probably anticipated, by the trained observation
177 and the alert mind of the first criminal agent in Europe.
178 All day, as I drove upon my round, I turned over the case in my mind and
179 found no explanation which appeared to me to be adequate.
180 At the risk of telling a twice-told tale, I will recapitulate the facts
181 as they were known to the public at the conclusion of the inquest.
189 \layout Subsubsection
191 Columns inside columns
193 \added_space_bottom -2ex
194 You can even have columns inside columns:
203 \added_space_bottom -2ex
206 The Honourable Ronald Adair was the second son of the Earl of Maynooth,
207 at that time governor of one of the Australian colonies.
208 Adair's mother had returned from Australia to undergo the operation for
209 cataract, and she, her son Ronald, and her daughter Hilda were living together
222 The youth moved in the best society--had, so far as was known, no enemies
223 and no particular vices.
224 He had been engaged to Miss Edith Woodley, of Carstairs, but the engagement
225 had been broken off by mutual consent some months before, and there was
226 no sign that it had left any very profound feeling behind it.
227 For the rest {sic} the man's life moved in a narrow and conventional circle,
228 for his habits were quiet and his nature unemotional.
229 Yet it was upon this easy-going young aristocrat that death came, in most
230 strange and unexpected form, between the hours of ten and eleven-twenty
231 on the night of March 30, 1894.
243 Ronald Adair was fond of cards--playing continually, but never for such
244 stakes as would hurt him.
245 He was a member of the Baldwin, the Cavendish, and the Bagatelle card clubs.
246 It was shown that, after dinner on the day of his death, he had played
247 a rubber of whist at the latter club.
248 He had also played there in the afternoon.
253 The evidence of those who had played with him-- Mr.
254 Murray, Sir John Hardy, and Colonel Moran--showed that the game was whist,
255 and that there was a fairly equal fall of the cards.
256 Adair might have lost five pounds, but not more.
257 His fortune was a considerable one, and such a loss could not in any way
259 He had played nearly every day at one club or other, but he was a cautious
260 player, and usually rose a winner.
261 It came out in evidence that, in partnership with Colonel Moran, he had
262 actually won as much as four hundred and twenty pounds in a sitting, some
263 weeks before, from Godfrey Milner and Lord Balmoral.
264 So much for his recent history as it came out at the inquest.
281 has several customizing variables.
282 The following examples shows how these can be used from LyX.
283 \layout Subsubsection
288 If there is less than 5cm left on the page, a page break will be inserted
289 before this bit, which has a preface text above the two columns:
298 And the story continues and continues and continues and continues\SpecialChar \ldots{}
306 On the evening of the crime, he returned from the club exactly at ten.
307 His mother and sister were out spending the evening with a relation.
308 The servant deposed that she heard him enter the front room on the second
309 floor, generally used as his sitting-room.
310 She had lit a fire there, and as it smoked she had opened the window.
311 No sound was heard from the room until eleven-twenty, the hour of the return
312 of Lady Maynooth and her daughter.
313 Desiring to say good-night, she attempted to enter her son's room.
314 The door was locked on the inside, and no answer could be got to their
316 Help was obtained, and the door forced.
317 The unfortunate young man was found lying near the table.
318 His head had been horribly mutilated by an expanding revolver bullet, but
319 no weapon of any sort was to be found in the room.
320 On the table lay two bank notes for ten pounds each and seventeen pounds
321 ten in silver and gold, the money arranged in little piles of varying amount.
322 There were some figures also upon a sheet of paper, with the names of some
323 club friends opposite to them, from which it was conjectured that before
324 his death he was endeavouring to make out his losses or winnings at cards.
332 \layout Subsubsection
337 What if you want the preface to be a sectioning command? That can be done,
338 but only through LaTeX commands inside the parameters for the
343 Because of this, the section command can not be provided by LyX:
354 This is the sectioning command as a preface
361 A minute examination of the circumstances served only to make the case more
363 In the first place, no reason could be given why the young man should have
364 fastened the door upon the inside.
365 There was the possibility that the murderer had done this, and had afterwards
366 escaped by the window.
367 The drop was at least twenty feet, however, and a bed of crocuses in full
369 Neither the flowers nor the earth showed any sign of having been disturbed,
370 nor were there any marks upon the narrow strip of grass which separated
371 the house from the road.
372 Apparently, therefore, it was the young man himself who had fastened the
374 But how did he come by his death? No one could have climbed up to the window
375 without leaving traces.
376 Suppose a man had fired through the window, he would indeed be a remarkable
377 shot who could with a revolver inflict so deadly a wound.
378 Again, Park Lane is a frequented thoroughfare; there is a cab stand within
379 a hundred yards of the house.
380 No one had heard a shot.
381 And yet there was the dead man and there the revolver bullet, which had
382 mushroomed out, as soft-nosed bullets will, and so inflicted a wound which
383 must have caused instantaneous death.
384 Such were the circumstances of the Park Lane Mystery, which were further
385 complicated by entire absence of motive, since, as I have said, young Adair
386 was not known to have any enemy, and no attempt had been made to remove
387 the money or valuables in the room.
395 \layout Subsubsection
404 package demands that a certain amount of space is available before and
405 after a multicolumn section.
410 inserts a given space in front of and after the multicol section.
411 The commands to change the default settings for this must be given just
419 This example puts a space of 3 cm in front of and after the multicolumn
436 All day I turned these facts over in my mind, endeavouring to hit upon some
437 theory which could reconcile them all, and to find that line of least resistanc
438 e which my poor friend had declared to be the starting-point of every investigat
440 I confess that I made little progress.
441 In the evening I strolled across the Park, and found myself about six o'clock
442 at the Oxford Street end of Park Lane.
443 A group of loafers upon the pavements, all staring up at a particular window,
444 directed me to the house which I had come to see.
445 A tall, thin man with coloured glasses, whom I strongly suspected of being
446 a plain-clothes detective, was pointing out some theory of his own, while
447 the others crowded round to listen to what he said.
448 I got as near him as I could, but his observations seemed to me to be absurd,
449 so I withdrew again in some disgust.
450 As I did so I struck against an elderly, deformed man, who had been behind
451 me, and I knocked down several books which he was carrying.
452 I remember that as I picked them up, I observed the title of one of them,
453 THE ORIGIN OF TREE WORSHIP, and it struck me that the fellow must be some
454 poor bibliophile, who, either as a trade or as a hobby, was a collector
456 I endeavoured to apologize for the accident, but it was evident that these
457 books which I had so unfortunately maltreated were very precious objects
458 in the eyes of their owner.
459 With a snarl of contempt he turned upon his heel, and I saw his curved
460 back and white side-whiskers disappear among the throng.
473 The values you set with
479 must be reset to default after use, or you will get the modified value
480 in the rest of your document.
490 \layout Subsubsection
492 Column Width and Separation
495 The width of the columns inside the
499 environment is automatically calculated, but you can modify the space between
500 two columns explicitly.
501 The space between the following two columns is 3 cm wide:
517 My observations of No.
518 427 Park Lane did little to clear up the problem in which I was interested.
519 The house was separated from the street by a low wall and railing, the
520 whole not more than five feet high.
521 It was perfectly easy, therefore, for anyone to get into the garden, but
522 the window was entirely inaccessible, since there was no water pipe or
523 anything which could help the most active man to climb it.
524 More puzzled than ever, I retraced my steps to Kensington.
525 I had not been in my study five minutes when the maid entered to say that
526 a person desired to see me.
527 To my astonishment it was none other than my strange old book collector,
528 his sharp, wizened face peering out from a frame of white hair, and his
529 precious volumes, a dozen of them at least, wedged under his right arm.
539 Once again, we have to reset the value after use to avoid using it in the
540 rest of the document.
550 \layout Subsubsection
555 Between every two columns, a rule of width
562 If this rule is set to 0 pt, the rule is suppressed.
563 In the following example, the line separating the two columns is 2 pt wide.
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583 You're surprised to see me, sir,
584 \begin_inset Quotes erd
587 said he, in a strange, croaking voice.
592 I acknowledged that I was.
598 \begin_inset Quotes eld
601 Well, I've a conscience, sir, and when I chanced to see you go into this
602 house, as I came hobbling after you, I thought to myself, I'll just step
603 in and see that kind gentleman, and tell him that if I was a bit gruff
604 in my manner there was not any harm meant, and that I am much obliged to
605 him for picking up my books.
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618 You make too much of a trifle,
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624 \begin_inset Quotes eld
627 May I ask how you knew who I was?
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640 Well, sir, if it isn't too great a liberty, I am a neighbour of yours, for
641 you'll find my little bookshop at the corner of Church Street, and very
642 happy to see you, I am sure.
643 Maybe you collect yourself, sir.
658 --a bargain, every one of them.
659 With five volumes you could just fill that gap on that second shelf.
660 It looks untidy, does it not, sir?
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674 As usual, we reset the value after use.
686 You'll have to go to the library to read the rest of the story.
687 \begin_float footnote
690 \SpecialChar \ldots{}
691 or cheat like we did and find it at the Gutenberg project somewhere on the
694 Believe it or not, but it's actually a bit of a cliff-hanger at this point
695 in the story\SpecialChar \ldots{}