SV: How! -- Index with Balanced Columns

2011-02-20 Thread Ingar Pareliussen
The code works for me in the standard book environment. However for book it might be a good idea to change the \clearpage to \cleardoublepage to be certain that it does not change the floats. Why it does not work for you is difficult to know? I would suggest that you make a copy of your book

Re: How! -- Index with Balanced Columns

2011-02-20 Thread stefano franchi
Hi Clive, I am going to suggest (again) the package idxlayout. I am worried about weird interaction between packages as much as you, but I found out a good package is often safer that adding several lines of latex code in the preamble (as you found out). Here is what I use for the index in my

Re: How! -- Index with Balanced Columns

2011-02-20 Thread ClivePauline_Libotte
Dear Lyxers I am using Lyx 1.6.7, Book Class, on openSUSE 11.1. I want to convert the standard two-column Index behavior to achieve balanced columns on the last Index page.( that is, from a single column down the left-hand side of the page with an empty column the right-hand side, to two

SV: How! -- Index with Balanced Columns

2011-02-20 Thread Ingar Pareliussen
The code works for me in the standard book environment. However for book it might be a good idea to change the \clearpage to \cleardoublepage to be certain that it does not change the floats. Why it does not work for you is difficult to know? I would suggest that you make a copy of your book

Re: How! -- Index with Balanced Columns

2011-02-20 Thread stefano franchi
Hi Clive, I am going to suggest (again) the package idxlayout. I am worried about weird interaction between packages as much as you, but I found out a good package is often safer that adding several lines of latex code in the preamble (as you found out). Here is what I use for the index in my

Re: How! -- Index with Balanced Columns

2011-02-20 Thread ClivePauline_Libotte
Dear Lyxers I am using Lyx 1.6.7, Book Class, on openSUSE 11.1. I want to convert the standard two-column Index behavior to achieve balanced columns on the last Index page.( that is, from a single column down the left-hand side of the page with an empty column the right-hand side, to two

SV: How! -- Index with Balanced Columns

2011-02-20 Thread Ingar Pareliussen
The code works for me in the standard book environment. However for book it might be a good idea to change the \clearpage to \cleardoublepage to be certain that it does not change the floats. Why it does not work for you is difficult to know? I would suggest that you make a copy of your book

Re: How! -- Index with Balanced Columns

2011-02-20 Thread stefano franchi
Hi Clive, I am going to suggest (again) the package idxlayout. I am worried about weird interaction between packages as much as you, but I found out a good package is often safer that adding several lines of latex code in the preamble (as you found out). Here is what I use for the index in my

Re: How! -- Index with Balanced Columns

2011-02-20 Thread Clive_Libotte
> Dear Lyxers > I am using Lyx 1.6.7, Book Class, on openSUSE 11.1. I want to convert > the standard two-column Index behavior to achieve balanced columns on > the last Index page.( that is, from a single column down the left-hand > side of the page with an empty column the right-hand side, to two

How! -- Index with Balanced Columns

2011-02-19 Thread ClivePauline_Libotte
Dear Lyxers I am using Lyx 1.6.7, Book Class, on openSUSE 11.1. I want to convert the standard two-column Index behavior to achieve balanced columns on the last Index page.( that is, from a single column down the left-hand side of the page with an empty column the right-hand side, to two columns

How! -- Index with Balanced Columns

2011-02-19 Thread ClivePauline_Libotte
Dear Lyxers I am using Lyx 1.6.7, Book Class, on openSUSE 11.1. I want to convert the standard two-column Index behavior to achieve balanced columns on the last Index page.( that is, from a single column down the left-hand side of the page with an empty column the right-hand side, to two columns

How! -- Index with Balanced Columns

2011-02-19 Thread Clive_Libotte
Dear Lyxers I am using Lyx 1.6.7, Book Class, on openSUSE 11.1. I want to convert the standard two-column Index behavior to achieve balanced columns on the last Index page.( that is, from a single column down the left-hand side of the page with an empty column the right-hand side, to two columns

How! -- Index with Balanced Columns.

2011-02-18 Thread ClivePauline_Libotte
Dear Lyxers I am using Lyx 1.6.7, Book Class, on openSUSE 11.1. I want to convert the standard two-column Index behavior to achieve balanced columns on the last Index page.( that is, from a single column down the left-hand side of the page with an empty column the right-hand side, to two columns

How! -- Index with Balanced Columns.

2011-02-18 Thread ClivePauline_Libotte
Dear Lyxers I am using Lyx 1.6.7, Book Class, on openSUSE 11.1. I want to convert the standard two-column Index behavior to achieve balanced columns on the last Index page.( that is, from a single column down the left-hand side of the page with an empty column the right-hand side, to two columns

How! -- Index with Balanced Columns.

2011-02-18 Thread Clive_Libotte
Dear Lyxers I am using Lyx 1.6.7, Book Class, on openSUSE 11.1. I want to convert the standard two-column Index behavior to achieve balanced columns on the last Index page.( that is, from a single column down the left-hand side of the page with an empty column the right-hand side, to two columns