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by
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Lars Gullik Bjønnes
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Purpose
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-The aim for this chapter is to show how the LaTeX package
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Limitations
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Examples
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The Adventure of the Empty House
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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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
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Multiple columns
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The same pattern is used when you want more than two columns.
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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
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You can even have columns inside columns:
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The Honourable Ronald Adair was the second son of the Earl of Maynooth,
at that time governor of one of the Australian colonies.
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The youth moved in the best society--had, so far as was known, no enemies
and no particular vices.
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Ronald Adair was fond of cards--playing continually, but never for such
stakes as would hurt him.
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Advanced Examples
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Preface and Skip
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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.
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A minute examination of the circumstances served only to make the case more
complex.
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Free Space
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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
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Note:
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My observations of No.
427 Park Lane did little to clear up the problem in which I was interested.
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I acknowledged that I was.
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Maybe you collect yourself, sir.
Here's
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Birds
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You'll have to go to the library to read the rest of the story.
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or cheat like we did and find it at the Gutenberg project somewhere on the
Web.
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