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Is it possible to write in a two-columns style in restructuredtext?

Answer 1

+1 A:

I haven't found a way to do so with ReST. You really should consider LaTeX for your research paper, especially for citations (BibTex), if you want to write it in plain text. You can easily switch between one and two columns:

% remove "twocolumn" for a single column
\documentclass[twocolumn]{article}
\begin{document}
Text here...
\end{document}

See Wikibooks for a good reference.

jmdeldin 2009-08-11 04:16:10

yes... seems there is no way in ReST, the only paper styles that I found using ReST were single columned. Guess I'll have to learn Latex ;)

attwad 2009-08-12 06:00:56

Good luck! LaTeX is aggravating at times, but it's still better than Word. Also, be sure to use a Makefile (or Rakefile if you're into that) for your paper - it'll make compiling a lot easier.

jmdeldin 2009-08-13 22:35:45

Answer 2

+3 A:

You can output 2-column in any of the formats docutils outputs.

If what you want is a 2-column ReST source then it's much harder.

Since there are no pages, it may not even make sense (imagine if the columns are 5000 lines long ;-), so I will assume you mean in the output, be it HTML, PDF or whatever.

For PDF, using rst2pdf, it's trivial, you only need to use the -s twocolumn option.

For HTML, it's a CSS thing, and I am sure google can help you.

Roberto Alsina 2009-08-25 11:51:10

Thank you so much!Of course I didn't want to split my rest source this makes no sense to me ^^I finally wrote my paper using latex, but next time thanks to you I'll give ReST a try :)

attwad 2009-09-02 00:40:16

Answer 3

+2 A:

If you wan't two column latex from reST you can get it with:

rst2latex --documentoptions=twocolumn source.rst

Matti Pastell 2010-04-06 06:53:41

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