+\end_inset
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+
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Standard
+To get 3 or more columns, set the cursor into the multicolumn inset and
+ use the menu
+\family sans
+Insert\SpecialChar menuseparator
+Number
+\begin_inset space ~
+\end_inset
+
+of
+\begin_inset space ~
+\end_inset
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+Columns
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+ The number of the desired columns is written into that inset (for 3
+\begin_inset space ~
+\end_inset
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+columns write
+\begin_inset Quotes eld
+\end_inset
+
+3
+\begin_inset Quotes erd
+\end_inset
+
+).
+\begin_inset Newline newline
+\end_inset
+
+Here is an example with 3
+\begin_inset space ~
+\end_inset
+
+columns:
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Standard
+\begin_inset Flex Multiple Columns
+status open
+
+\begin_layout Plain Layout
+
+\size footnotesize
+\begin_inset Argument 1
+status open
+
+\begin_layout Plain Layout
+3
+\end_layout
+
+\end_inset
+
+It can be imagined that my close intimacy with Sherlock Holmes had interested
+ me deeply in crime, and that after his disappearance I never failed to
+ read with care the various problems which came before the public.
+ And I even attempted, more than once, for my own private satisfaction,
+ to employ his methods in their solution, though with indifferent success.
+ There was none, however, which appealed to me like this tragedy of Ronald
+ Adair.
+ As I read the evidence at the inquest, which led up to a verdict of willful
+ murder against some person or persons unknown, I realized more clearly
+ than I had ever done the loss which the community had sustained by the
+ death of Sherlock Holmes.
+ There were points about this strange business which would, I was sure,
+ have specially appealed to him, and the efforts of the police would have
+ been supplemented, or more probably anticipated, by the trained observation
+ and the alert mind of the first criminal agent in Europe.
+ All day, as I drove upon my round, I turned over the case in my mind and
+ found no explanation which appeared to me to be adequate.
+ At the risk of telling a twice-told tale, I will recapitulate the facts
+ as they were known to the public at the conclusion of the inquest.
+\end_layout
+
+\end_inset
+
+
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Standard
+You can have up to 10
+\begin_inset space ~
+\end_inset
+
+columns if you want to, but that might not be very pleasant for the readers
+ of your document.
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Standard
+\begin_inset Newpage newpage
+\end_inset
+
+
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Subsection
+Columns inside Columns
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Standard
+You can also have columns inside columns:
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Standard
+\begin_inset Flex Multiple Columns
+status open
+
+\begin_layout Plain Layout
+
+\size footnotesize
+The Honourable Ronald Adair was the second son of the Earl of Maynooth,
+ at that time governor of one of the Australian colonies.
+ Adair's mother had returned from Australia to undergo the operation for
+ cataract, and she, her son Ronald, and her daughter Hilda were living together
+ at 427 Park Lane.
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+\begin_layout Plain Layout
+\begin_inset Flex Multiple Columns
+status open
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+\begin_layout Plain Layout
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+\size footnotesize
+The youth moved in the best society–had, so far as was known, no enemies
+ and no particular vices.
+ He had been engaged to Miss Edith Woodley, of Carstairs, but the engagement
+ had been broken off by mutual consent some months before, and there was
+ no sign that it had left any very profound feeling behind it.
+ For the rest {sic} the man's life moved in a narrow and conventional circle,
+ for his habits were quiet and his nature unemotional.
+ Yet it was upon this easy-going young aristocrat that death came, in most
+ strange and unexpected form, between the hours of ten and eleven-twenty
+ on the night of March 30, 1894.
+\end_layout
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+\end_inset
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+
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+\begin_layout Plain Layout
+
+\size footnotesize
+Ronald Adair was fond of cards–playing continually, but never for such stakes
+ as would hurt him.
+ He was a member of the Baldwin, the Cavendish, and the Bagatelle card clubs.
+ It was shown that, after dinner on the day of his death, he had played
+ a rubber of whist at the latter club.
+ He had also played there in the afternoon.
+
+\size default
+
+\size footnotesize
+The evidence of those who had played with him– Mr.
+ Murray, Sir John Hardy, and Colonel Moran–showed that the game was whist,
+ and that there was a fairly equal fall of the cards.
+ Adair might have lost five pounds, but not more.
+ His fortune was a considerable one, and such a loss could not in any way
+ affect him.
+ He had played nearly every day at one club or other, but he was a cautious
+ player, and usually rose a winner.
+ It came out in evidence that, in partnership with Colonel Moran, he had
+ actually won as much as four hundred and twenty pounds in a sitting, some
+ weeks before, from Godfrey Milner and Lord Balmoral.
+ So much for his recent history as it came out at the inquest.
+\end_layout
+
+\end_inset
+
+
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Subsection
+Advanced Examples
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Standard
+The examples in this section show some more special features of multiple
+ columns.
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Standard
+For more features of multiple columns, have a look at the documentation
+ of the \SpecialChar LaTeX
+-package
+\series bold
+multicol
+\series default
+,
+\begin_inset CommandInset citation
+LatexCommand cite
+key "multicol"
+
+\end_inset
+
+.
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Subsubsection
+Preface
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Standard
+To add a preface text for multiple columns, set the cursor into the multicolumn
+ inset and use the menu
+\family sans
+Insert\SpecialChar menuseparator
+Preface
+\family default
+.
+ Write your preface text into that inset.
+\begin_inset Newline newline
+\end_inset
+
+This is an example with some preface text:
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Standard
+\begin_inset VSpace bigskip
+\end_inset
+
+
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Standard
+\begin_inset Flex Multiple Columns
+status open
+
+\begin_layout Plain Layout
+\begin_inset Argument 2
+status open
+
+\begin_layout Plain Layout
+And the story continues and continues and continues and continues\SpecialChar ldots
+
+\end_layout
+
+\end_inset
+
+
+\size small
+On the evening of the crime, he returned from the club exactly at ten.
+ His mother and sister were out spending the evening with a relation.
+ The servant deposed that she heard him enter the front room on the second
+ floor, generally used as his sitting-room.
+ She had lit a fire there, and as it smoked she had opened the window.
+ No sound was heard from the room until eleven-twenty, the hour of the return
+ of Lady Maynooth and her daughter.
+ Desiring to say good-night, she attempted to enter her son's room.
+ The door was locked on the inside, and no answer could be got to their
+ cries and knocking.
+ Help was obtained, and the door forced.
+ The unfortunate young man was found lying near the table.
+ His head had been horribly mutilated by an expanding revolver bullet, but
+ no weapon of any sort was to be found in the room.
+\end_layout
+
+\end_inset
+
+
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Standard
+You can also use a section heading as the preface if you use a section command
+ as \SpecialChar TeX
+ Code.
+ For example the command
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Standard
+
+\series bold
+
+\backslash
+subsection{subsection title}
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Standard
+creates a subsection.
+ In this example the preface is a subsubsection:
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Standard
+\begin_inset Flex Multiple Columns
+status open
+
+\begin_layout Plain Layout
+\begin_inset Argument 2
+status open
+
+\begin_layout Plain Layout
+\begin_inset ERT
+status collapsed
+
+\begin_layout Plain Layout
+
+
+\backslash
+subsubsection{
+\end_layout
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+\end_inset
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+This is a subsubsection heading as a preface
+\begin_inset ERT
+status collapsed
+
+\begin_layout Plain Layout
+
+}
+\end_layout
+
+\end_inset
+
+
+\end_layout
+
+\end_inset
+
+
+\size small
+A minute examination of the circumstances served only to make the case more
+ complex.
+ In the first place, no reason could be given why the young man should have
+ fastened the door upon the inside.
+ There was the possibility that the murderer had done this, and had afterwards
+ escaped by the window.
+ The drop was at least twenty feet, however, and a bed of crocuses in full
+ bloom lay beneath.
+ Neither the flowers nor the earth showed any sign of having been disturbed,
+ nor were there any marks upon the narrow strip of grass which separated
+ the house from the road.
+ Apparently, therefore, it was the young man himself who had fastened the
+ door.
+ But how did he come by his death? No one could have climbed up to the window
+ without leaving traces.
+ Suppose a man had fired through the window, he would indeed be a remarkable
+ shot who could with a revolver inflict so deadly a wound.
+ Again, Park Lane is a frequented thoroughfare; there is a cab stand within
+ a hundred yards of the house.
+ No one had heard a shot.
+\end_layout
+
+\end_inset
+
+
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Standard
+If there is less vertical space than 6
+\begin_inset space ~
+\end_inset
+
+text lines is left on the page at the beginning of the multiple columns,
+ a page break will be inserted before the multiple columns.
+ Depending on the number of lines of the preface text, you might want to
+ change this space.
+ This is done by setting the cursor into the mulitcolumn inset behind the
+ preface (if there is any) and using the menu
+\family sans
+Insert\SpecialChar menuseparator
+Space
+\begin_inset space ~
+\end_inset
+
+Before
+\begin_inset space ~
+\end_inset
+
+Page
+\begin_inset space ~
+\end_inset
+
+Break
+\family default
+.
+ Insert into that inset the amount of space like e.
+\begin_inset space \thinspace{}
+\end_inset
+
+g.
+\begin_inset space \space{}
+\end_inset
+
+
+\begin_inset Quotes eld
+\end_inset
+
+5cm
+\begin_inset Quotes erd
+\end_inset
+
+.
+\begin_inset Newline newline
+\end_inset
+
+In this example the space is set to 7
+\begin_inset space ~
+\end_inset
+
+text lines by using
+\begin_inset Quotes eld
+\end_inset
+
+7
+\backslash
+baselineskip
+\begin_inset Quotes erd
+\end_inset
+
+ (where the command
+\series bold
+
+\backslash
+baselineskip
+\series default
+ needs to be inserted as \SpecialChar TeX
+ code):
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Standard
+\begin_inset Flex Multiple Columns
+status open
+
+\begin_layout Plain Layout
+\begin_inset Argument 3
+status open
+
+\begin_layout Plain Layout
+7
+\begin_inset ERT
+status collapsed
+
+\begin_layout Plain Layout
+
+
+\backslash
+baselineskip
+\end_layout
+
+\end_inset
+
+
+\end_layout
+
+\end_inset
+
+
+\size small
+On the evening of the crime, he returned from the club exactly at ten.
+ His mother and sister were out spending the evening with a relation.
+ The servant deposed that she heard him enter the front room on the second
+ floor, generally used as his sitting-room.
+ She had lit a fire there, and as it smoked she had opened the window.
+ No sound was heard from the room until eleven-twenty, the hour of the return
+ of Lady Maynooth and her daughter.
+ Desiring to say good-night, she attempted to enter her son's room.
+ The door was locked on the inside, and no answer could be got to their
+ cries and knocking.
+ Help was obtained, and the door forced.
+ The unfortunate young man was found lying near the table.
+ His head had been horribly mutilated by an expanding revolver bullet, but
+ no weapon of any sort was to be found in the room.
+\end_layout
+
+\end_inset
+
+
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Subsubsection
+Surrounding Space
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Standard
+The amount of space before and after multiple columns can be changed by
+ changing the length
+\series bold
+
+\backslash
+multicolsep
+\series default
+.
+ For example the command
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Standard
+
+\series bold
+
+\backslash
+setlength{
+\backslash
+multicolsep}{3cm}
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Standard
+in \SpecialChar TeX
+ Code changes its value to 3
+\begin_inset space \thinspace{}
+\end_inset
+
+cm.
+ The change must be made before the multiple columns' start.
+ The predefined value is 13
+\begin_inset space \thinspace{}
+\end_inset
+
+pt.
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Standard
+For this example
+\series bold
+
+\backslash
+multicolsep
+\series default
+ was set to 2.5
+\begin_inset space \thinspace{}
+\end_inset
+
+cm:
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Standard
+\begin_inset ERT
+status open
+
+\begin_layout Plain Layout
+
+
+\backslash
+setlength{
+\backslash
+multicolsep}{2.5cm}
+\end_layout
+
+\end_inset
+
+
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Standard
+\begin_inset Flex Multiple Columns
+status open
+
+\begin_layout Plain Layout
+
+\size small
+All day I turned these facts over in my mind, endeavouring to hit upon some
+ theory which could reconcile them all, and to find that line of least resistanc
+e which my poor friend had declared to be the starting-point of every investigat
+ion.
+ I confess that I made little progress.
+ In the evening I strolled across the Park, and found myself about six o'clock
+ at the Oxford Street end of Park Lane.
+ A group of loafers upon the pavements, all staring up at a particular window,
+ directed me to the house which I had come to see.
+ A tall, thin man with coloured glasses, whom I strongly suspected of being
+ a plain-clothes detective, was pointing out some theory of his own, while
+ the others crowded round to listen to what he said.
+ I got as near him as I could, but his observations seemed to me to be absurd,
+ so I withdrew again in some disgust.
+ As I did so I struck against an elderly, deformed man, who had been behind
+ me, and I knocked down several books which he was carrying.
+\end_layout
+
+\end_inset
+
+
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Standard
+\begin_inset Note Greyedout
+status open
+
+\begin_layout Plain Layout
+
+\series bold
+Note:
+\series default
+ The values you set with
+\series bold
+
+\backslash
+setlength
+\series default
+ will be used for all following multiple columns until you change them again.
+\end_layout
+
+\end_inset
+
+
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Standard
+\begin_inset ERT
+status collapsed
+
+\begin_layout Plain Layout
+
+
+\backslash
+setlength{
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+\end_layout
+
+\end_inset
+
+
+\begin_inset Note Note
+status collapsed
+
+\begin_layout Plain Layout
+go back to the default
+\end_layout
+
+\end_inset
+
+
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Standard
+\begin_inset Newpage newpage
+\end_inset
+
+
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Subsubsection
+Column Breaks
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Standard
+A column break can be forced by inserting the command
+\series bold
+
+\backslash
+columnbreak{}
+\series default
+ as \SpecialChar TeX
+ Code to that position in the text where the column should be broken.
+ Note that this leads in most cases to whitespace in the text.
+\begin_inset Newline newline
+\end_inset
+
+Here is an example:
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Standard
+\begin_inset Flex Multiple Columns
+status open
+
+\begin_layout Plain Layout
+
+\size small
+\begin_inset Quotes eld
+\end_inset
+
+You're surprised to see me, sir,
+\begin_inset Quotes erd
+\end_inset
+
+ said he, in a strange, croaking voice.
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Plain Layout
+
+\size small
+I acknowledged that I was.
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Plain Layout
+
+\size small
+\begin_inset Quotes eld
+\end_inset
+
+Well, I've a conscience, sir, and when I chanced to see you go into this
+ house, as I came hobbling after you, I thought to myself, I'll just step
+ in and see that kind gentleman, and tell him that if I was a bit gruff
+ in my manner there was not any harm meant, and that I am much obliged to
+ him for picking up my books.
+\begin_inset Quotes erd
+\end_inset
+
+
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Plain Layout
+
+\size small
+\begin_inset Quotes eld
+\end_inset
+
+You make too much of a trifle,
+\begin_inset Quotes erd
+\end_inset
+
+ said I.
+
+\begin_inset Quotes eld
+\end_inset
+
+May I ask how you knew who I was?
+\begin_inset Quotes erd
+\end_inset
+
+ AFTER THIS SENTENCE THE COLUMN BREAK IS FORCED.
+\begin_inset ERT
+status collapsed
+
+\begin_layout Plain Layout
+
+
+\backslash
+columnbreak{}
+\end_layout
+
+\end_inset
+
+
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Plain Layout
+
+\size small
+\begin_inset Quotes eld
+\end_inset
+
+Well, sir, if it isn't too great a liberty, I am a neighbour of yours, for
+ you'll find my little bookshop at the corner of Church Street, and very
+ happy to see you, I am sure.
+ Maybe you collect yourself, sir.
+ Here's
+\noun on
+British
+\begin_inset space ~
+\end_inset
+
+Birds
+\noun default
+, and
+\noun on
+Catullus
+\noun default
+, and
+\noun on
+The Holy War
+\noun default
+–a bargain, every one of them.
+ With five volumes you could just fill that gap on that second shelf.
+ It looks untidy, does it not, sir?
+\begin_inset Quotes erd
+\end_inset
+
+
+\end_layout
+
+\end_inset
+
+
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Subsubsection
+Column Separation
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Standard
+The width of the columns is automatically calculated, but you can modify
+ the space between the columns.
+ This is done by changing the length
+\series bold
+
+\backslash
+columnsep
+\series default
+.
+ Its predefined value is 10
+\begin_inset space \thinspace{}
+\end_inset
+
+pt.
+ Here is an example where
+\series bold
+
+\backslash
+columnsep
+\series default
+ is set to 3
+\begin_inset space \thinspace{}
+\end_inset
+
+cm:
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Standard
+\begin_inset ERT
+status open
+
+\begin_layout Plain Layout
+