+Here is an example:
+\end_layout
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+2
+\end_layout
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+\begin_layout Standard
+\noindent
+
+\series bold
+\size small
+The Adventure of the Empty House
+\series default
+
+\begin_inset Newline newline
+\end_inset
+
+by
+\noun on
+Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Standard
+
+\size small
+It was in the spring of the year 1894 that all London was interested, and
+ the fashionable world dismayed, by the murder of the Honourable Ronald
+ Adair under most unusual and inexplicable circumstances.
+ The public has already learned those particulars of the crime which came
+ out in the police investigation, but a good deal was suppressed upon that
+ occasion, since the case for the prosecution was so overwhelmingly strong
+ that it was not necessary to bring forward all the facts.
+ Only now, at the end of nearly ten years, am I allowed to supply those
+ missing links which make up the whole of that remarkable chain.
+ The crime was of interest in itself, but that interest was as nothing to
+ me compared to the inconceivable sequel, which afforded me the greatest
+ shock and surprise of any event in my adventurous life.
+ Even now, after this long interval, I find myself thrilling as I think
+ of it, and feeling once more that sudden flood of joy, amazement, and increduli
+ty which utterly submerged my mind.
+ Let me say to that public, which has shown some interest in those glimpses
+ which I have occasionally given them of the thoughts and actions of a very
+ remarkable man, that they are not to blame me if I have not shared my knowledge
+ with them, for I should have considered it my first duty to do so, had
+ I not been barred by a positive prohibition from his own lips, which was
+ only withdrawn upon the third of last month.
+\end_layout
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+\begin_layout End Multiple Columns
+
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Standard
+Here is an example with 3
+\begin_inset space ~
+\end_inset
+
+columns:
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Begin Multiple Columns
+3
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Standard
+
+\size footnotesize
+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
+
+\begin_layout End Multiple Columns
+
+\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:
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+
+\begin_layout Begin Multiple Columns
+2
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Standard
+
+\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 Begin Multiple Columns
+2
+\end_layout
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+\begin_layout Standard
+
+\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.
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+\begin_layout End Multiple Columns
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+\end_layout
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+\begin_layout Standard
+
+\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
+
+\begin_layout End Multiple Columns
+
+\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 LaTeX-package
+\series bold
+multicol
+\series default
+
+\begin_inset Index idx
+status collapsed
+
+\begin_layout Plain Layout
+LaTeX-packages ! multicol
+\end_layout
+
+\end_inset
+
+,
+\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, add the command
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Standard
+
+\series bold
+}[
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Standard
+as TeX Code behind the number of columns in the
+\family sans
+ Begin Multiple Columns
+\family default
+ style.
+ Behind the command follows the preface text.
+ At the end of the style use the command
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Standard
+
+\series bold
+]{
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Standard
+as TeX Code.
+ An example with some preface text:
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Standard
+\begin_inset VSpace bigskip
+\end_inset
+
+
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Begin Multiple Columns
+2
+\begin_inset ERT
+status collapsed
+
+\begin_layout Plain Layout
+
+}[
+\end_layout
+
+\end_inset
+
+And the story continues and continues and continues and continues\SpecialChar \ldots{}
+
+\begin_inset ERT
+status collapsed
+
+\begin_layout Plain Layout
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+]{
+\end_layout
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+\end_inset
+
+
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Standard
+
+\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
+
+\begin_layout End Multiple Columns
+
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Standard
+You can also use a section heading as the preface if you use a section command
+ as TeX Code behind the first TeX Code.
+ For example the command