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43 The aim for this chapter is to show how the LaTeX package
47 can be used in a LyX document.
48 As LyX doesn't support the
52 package natively yet, we have to use some small hacks.
53 By reading this section it should be obvious how to do this.
63 package allows switching between one and multicolumn format on the same
65 Footnotes are handled correctly (for the most part), but will be placed
66 at the bottom of the page and not under each column.
67 LaTeX's float mechanism, however, is partly disabled in the current implementat
69 At the moment only page-wide floats can be used within the scope of the
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79 If you want to have two columns in your text, you have use LaTeX mode to
86 at the point where you want the two column layout to start, and then
92 where you want it to end.
112 The Adventure of the Empty House
118 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
123 It was in the spring of the year 1894 that all London was interested, and
124 the fashionable world dismayed, by the murder of the Honourable Ronald
125 Adair under most unusual and inexplicable circumstances.
126 The public has already learned those particulars of the crime which came
127 out in the police investigation, but a good deal was suppressed upon that
128 occasion, since the case for the prosecution was so overwhelmingly strong
129 that it was not necessary to bring forward all the facts.
130 Only now, at the end of nearly ten years, am I allowed to supply those
131 missing links which make up the whole of that remarkable chain.
132 The crime was of interest in itself, but that interest was as nothing to
133 me compared to the inconceivable sequel, which afforded me the greatest
134 shock and surprise of any event in my adventurous life.
135 Even now, after this long interval, I find myself thrilling as I think
136 of it, and feeling once more that sudden flood of joy, amazement, and increduli
137 ty which utterly submerged my mind.
138 Let me say to that public, which has shown some interest in those glimpses
139 which I have occasionally given them of the thoughts and actions of a very
140 remarkable man, that they are not to blame me if I have not shared my knowledge
141 with them, for I should have considered it my first duty to do so, had
142 I not been barred by a positive prohibition from his own lips, which was
143 only withdrawn upon the third of last month.
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162 The same pattern is used when you want more than two columns.
163 (You can have more than 3 columns if you want , but that might not be very
164 pleasant for the eye.)
182 It can be imagined that my close intimacy with Sherlock Holmes had interested
183 me deeply in crime, and that after his disappearance I never failed to
184 read with care the various problems which came before the public.
185 And I even attempted, more than once, for my own private satisfaction,
186 to employ his methods in their solution, though with indifferent success.
187 There was none, however, which appealed to me like this tragedy of Ronald
189 As I read the evidence at the inquest, which led up to a verdict of willful
190 murder against some person or persons unknown, I realized more clearly
191 than I had ever done the loss which the community had sustained by the
192 death of Sherlock Holmes.
193 There were points about this strange business which would, I was sure,
194 have specially appealed to him, and the efforts of the police would have
195 been supplemented, or more probably anticipated, by the trained observation
196 and the alert mind of the first criminal agent in Europe.
197 All day, as I drove upon my round, I turned over the case in my mind and
198 found no explanation which appeared to me to be adequate.
199 At the risk of telling a twice-told tale, I will recapitulate the facts
200 as they were known to the public at the conclusion of the inquest.
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219 You can even have columns inside columns:
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237 The Honourable Ronald Adair was the second son of the Earl of Maynooth,
238 at that time governor of one of the Australian colonies.
239 Adair's mother had returned from Australia to undergo the operation for
240 cataract, and she, her son Ronald, and her daughter Hilda were living together
259 The youth moved in the best society--had, so far as was known, no enemies
260 and no particular vices.
261 He had been engaged to Miss Edith Woodley, of Carstairs, but the engagement
262 had been broken off by mutual consent some months before, and there was
263 no sign that it had left any very profound feeling behind it.
264 For the rest {sic} the man's life moved in a narrow and conventional circle,
265 for his habits were quiet and his nature unemotional.
266 Yet it was upon this easy-going young aristocrat that death came, in most
267 strange and unexpected form, between the hours of ten and eleven-twenty
268 on the night of March 30, 1894.
286 Ronald Adair was fond of cards--playing continually, but never for such
287 stakes as would hurt him.
288 He was a member of the Baldwin, the Cavendish, and the Bagatelle card clubs.
289 It was shown that, after dinner on the day of his death, he had played
290 a rubber of whist at the latter club.
291 He had also played there in the afternoon.
296 The evidence of those who had played with him-- Mr.
297 Murray, Sir John Hardy, and Colonel Moran--showed that the game was whist,
298 and that there was a fairly equal fall of the cards.
299 Adair might have lost five pounds, but not more.
300 His fortune was a considerable one, and such a loss could not in any way
302 He had played nearly every day at one club or other, but he was a cautious
303 player, and usually rose a winner.
304 It came out in evidence that, in partnership with Colonel Moran, he had
305 actually won as much as four hundred and twenty pounds in a sitting, some
306 weeks before, from Godfrey Milner and Lord Balmoral.
307 So much for his recent history as it came out at the inquest.
330 has several customizing variables.
331 The following examples shows how these can be used from LyX.
332 \layout Subsubsection
337 If there is less than 5cm left on the page, a page break will be inserted
338 before this bit, which has a preface text above the two columns:
351 And the story continues and continues and continues and continues\SpecialChar \ldots{}
365 On the evening of the crime, he returned from the club exactly at ten.
366 His mother and sister were out spending the evening with a relation.
367 The servant deposed that she heard him enter the front room on the second
368 floor, generally used as his sitting-room.
369 She had lit a fire there, and as it smoked she had opened the window.
370 No sound was heard from the room until eleven-twenty, the hour of the return
371 of Lady Maynooth and her daughter.
372 Desiring to say good-night, she attempted to enter her son's room.
373 The door was locked on the inside, and no answer could be got to their
375 Help was obtained, and the door forced.
376 The unfortunate young man was found lying near the table.
377 His head had been horribly mutilated by an expanding revolver bullet, but
378 no weapon of any sort was to be found in the room.
379 On the table lay two bank notes for ten pounds each and seventeen pounds
380 ten in silver and gold, the money arranged in little piles of varying amount.
381 There were some figures also upon a sheet of paper, with the names of some
382 club friends opposite to them, from which it was conjectured that before
383 his death he was endeavouring to make out his losses or winnings at cards.
397 \layout Subsubsection
402 What if you want the preface to be a sectioning command? That can be done,
403 but only through LaTeX commands inside the parameters for the
408 Because of this, the section command can not be provided by LyX:
423 This is the sectioning command as a preface
436 A minute examination of the circumstances served only to make the case more
438 In the first place, no reason could be given why the young man should have
439 fastened the door upon the inside.
440 There was the possibility that the murderer had done this, and had afterwards
441 escaped by the window.
442 The drop was at least twenty feet, however, and a bed of crocuses in full
444 Neither the flowers nor the earth showed any sign of having been disturbed,
445 nor were there any marks upon the narrow strip of grass which separated
446 the house from the road.
447 Apparently, therefore, it was the young man himself who had fastened the
449 But how did he come by his death? No one could have climbed up to the window
450 without leaving traces.
451 Suppose a man had fired through the window, he would indeed be a remarkable
452 shot who could with a revolver inflict so deadly a wound.
453 Again, Park Lane is a frequented thoroughfare; there is a cab stand within
454 a hundred yards of the house.
455 No one had heard a shot.
456 And yet there was the dead man and there the revolver bullet, which had
457 mushroomed out, as soft-nosed bullets will, and so inflicted a wound which
458 must have caused instantaneous death.
459 Such were the circumstances of the Park Lane Mystery, which were further
460 complicated by entire absence of motive, since, as I have said, young Adair
461 was not known to have any enemy, and no attempt had been made to remove
462 the money or valuables in the room.
476 \layout Subsubsection
485 package demands that a certain amount of space is available before and
486 after a multicolumn section.
491 inserts a given space in front of and after the multicol section.
492 The commands to change the default settings for this must be given just
500 This example puts a space of 3 cm in front of and after the multicolumn
523 All day I turned these facts over in my mind, endeavouring to hit upon some
524 theory which could reconcile them all, and to find that line of least resistanc
525 e which my poor friend had declared to be the starting-point of every investigat
527 I confess that I made little progress.
528 In the evening I strolled across the Park, and found myself about six o'clock
529 at the Oxford Street end of Park Lane.
530 A group of loafers upon the pavements, all staring up at a particular window,
531 directed me to the house which I had come to see.
532 A tall, thin man with coloured glasses, whom I strongly suspected of being
533 a plain-clothes detective, was pointing out some theory of his own, while
534 the others crowded round to listen to what he said.
535 I got as near him as I could, but his observations seemed to me to be absurd,
536 so I withdrew again in some disgust.
537 As I did so I struck against an elderly, deformed man, who had been behind
538 me, and I knocked down several books which he was carrying.
539 I remember that as I picked them up, I observed the title of one of them,
540 THE ORIGIN OF TREE WORSHIP, and it struck me that the fellow must be some
541 poor bibliophile, who, either as a trade or as a hobby, was a collector
543 I endeavoured to apologize for the accident, but it was evident that these
544 books which I had so unfortunately maltreated were very precious objects
545 in the eyes of their owner.
546 With a snarl of contempt he turned upon his heel, and I saw his curved
547 back and white side-whiskers disappear among the throng.
566 The values you set with
572 must be reset to default after use, or you will get the modified value
573 in the rest of your document.
589 \layout Subsubsection
591 Column Width and Separation
594 The width of the columns inside the
598 environment is automatically calculated, but you can modify the space between
599 two columns explicitly.
600 The space between the following two columns is 3 cm wide:
622 My observations of No.
623 427 Park Lane did little to clear up the problem in which I was interested.
624 The house was separated from the street by a low wall and railing, the
625 whole not more than five feet high.
626 It was perfectly easy, therefore, for anyone to get into the garden, but
627 the window was entirely inaccessible, since there was no water pipe or
628 anything which could help the most active man to climb it.
629 More puzzled than ever, I retraced my steps to Kensington.
630 I had not been in my study five minutes when the maid entered to say that
631 a person desired to see me.
632 To my astonishment it was none other than my strange old book collector,
633 his sharp, wizened face peering out from a frame of white hair, and his
634 precious volumes, a dozen of them at least, wedged under his right arm.
650 Once again, we have to reset the value after use to avoid using it in the
651 rest of the document.
667 \layout Subsubsection
672 Between every two columns, a rule of width
679 If this rule is set to 0 pt, the rule is suppressed.
680 In the following example, the line separating the two columns is 2 pt wide.
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706 You're surprised to see me, sir,
707 \begin_inset Quotes erd
710 said he, in a strange, croaking voice.
715 I acknowledged that I was.
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724 Well, I've a conscience, sir, and when I chanced to see you go into this
725 house, as I came hobbling after you, I thought to myself, I'll just step
726 in and see that kind gentleman, and tell him that if I was a bit gruff
727 in my manner there was not any harm meant, and that I am much obliged to
728 him for picking up my books.
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741 You make too much of a trifle,
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750 May I ask how you knew who I was?
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763 Well, sir, if it isn't too great a liberty, I am a neighbour of yours, for
764 you'll find my little bookshop at the corner of Church Street, and very
765 happy to see you, I am sure.
766 Maybe you collect yourself, sir.
769 British\SpecialChar ~
780 --a bargain, every one of them.
781 With five volumes you could just fill that gap on that second shelf.
782 It looks untidy, does it not, sir?
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802 As usual, we reset the value after use.
820 You'll have to go to the library to read the rest of the story.
826 \SpecialChar \ldots{}
827 or cheat like we did and find it at the Gutenberg project somewhere on the
831 Believe it or not, but it's actually a bit of a cliff-hanger at this point
832 in the story\SpecialChar \ldots{}
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