is it possible to have table of contents be in 2 columns ?

[Nasser M. Abbasi]

Lets say we have a long table of contents that spans 4 pages.

I was wondering if it is possible to have it span only 2 pages by having it
formatted in 2 columns instead of the default one column?

(I'll make sure my section heading are short to allow this all to fit).

thanks
--Nasser

[Peter Flynn]

Post by Nasser M. Abbasi
Lets say we have a long table of contents that spans 4 pages.
I was wondering if it is possible to have it span only 2 pages by having it
formatted in 2 columns instead of the default one column?
(I'll make sure my section heading are short to allow this all to fit).

Have you tried

\usepackage{multicol}
...
\begin{multicols}{2}
\tableofcontents
\end{multicols}

[I haven't tried it].

///Peter

[Nasser M. Abbasi]

Post by Peter Flynn

Post by Nasser M. Abbasi
Lets say we have a long table of contents that spans 4 pages.
I was wondering if it is possible to have it span only 2 pages by having
it formatted in 2 columns instead of the default one column?
(I'll make sure my section heading are short to allow this all to fit).

Have you tried
\usepackage{multicol}
...
\begin{multicols}{2}
\tableofcontents
\end{multicols}
[I haven't tried it].
///Peter

Thanks Peter, that worked very well.

But htlatex is unable to make the table of content in the HTML output.

I guess multicol is hard to do in html for table of content. I was hoping
the HTML table of content will also split as it did in the pdf output.

Best
--Nasser

[Peter Flynn]

Post by Nasser M. Abbasi

Post by Peter Flynn

Post by Nasser M. Abbasi
Lets say we have a long table of contents that spans 4 pages.
I was wondering if it is possible to have it span only 2 pages by having
it formatted in 2 columns instead of the default one column?
(I'll make sure my section heading are short to allow this all to fit).

Have you tried
\usepackage{multicol}
...
\begin{multicols}{2}
\tableofcontents
\end{multicols}
[I haven't tried it].
///Peter

Thanks Peter, that worked very well.
But htlatex is unable to make the table of content in the HTML output.
I guess multicol is hard to do in html for table of content. I was hoping
the HTML table of content will also split as it did in the pdf output.

Web browsers don't have an agreed way of handling flowable
multi-columns. There have been several attempts, but right now it
requires an addtional layer of software to create a table, or a pair of
DIVs, or some other construct, and then judge how much text to put in
each. And it depends on what technology you're using for the back-end
and front-end: htlatex, latex2html, tex4ht, Java, XSLT, Javascript, ASP,
JSP, PHP,...

///Peter

[Philipp Stephani]

Post by Peter Flynn

Post by Nasser M. Abbasi

Post by Peter Flynn

Post by Nasser M. Abbasi
Lets say we have a long table of contents that spans 4 pages.
I was wondering if it is possible to have it span only 2 pages by
having it formatted in 2 columns instead of the default one
column?
(I'll make sure my section heading are short to allow this all to fit).

Have you tried
\usepackage{multicol}
...
\begin{multicols}{2}
\tableofcontents
\end{multicols}
[I haven't tried it].
///Peter

Thanks Peter, that worked very well.
But htlatex is unable to make the table of content in the HTML output.
I guess multicol is hard to do in html for table of content. I was
hoping the HTML table of content will also split as it did in the
pdf output.

Web browsers don't have an agreed way of handling flowable
multi-columns. There have been several attempts, but right now it
requires an addtional layer of software to create a table, or a pair
of DIVs, or some other construct, and then judge how much text to put
in each. And it depends on what technology you're using for the
back-end and front-end: htlatex, latex2html, tex4ht, Java, XSLT,
Javascript, ASP, JSP, PHP,...

For the record: CSS3 will include column support, and modern browsers
already include this feature:

http://www.css3.info/preview/multi-column-layout/

[Peter Flynn]

Post by Philipp Stephani

Post by Peter Flynn

Post by Nasser M. Abbasi

Post by Peter Flynn

Post by Nasser M. Abbasi
Lets say we have a long table of contents that spans 4 pages.
I was wondering if it is possible to have it span only 2 pages by
having it formatted in 2 columns instead of the default one
column?
(I'll make sure my section heading are short to allow this all to fit).

Have you tried
\usepackage{multicol}
...
\begin{multicols}{2}
\tableofcontents
\end{multicols}
[I haven't tried it].
///Peter

Thanks Peter, that worked very well.
But htlatex is unable to make the table of content in the HTML output.
I guess multicol is hard to do in html for table of content. I was
hoping the HTML table of content will also split as it did in the
pdf output.

Web browsers don't have an agreed way of handling flowable
multi-columns. There have been several attempts, but right now it
requires an addtional layer of software to create a table, or a pair
of DIVs, or some other construct, and then judge how much text to put
in each. And it depends on what technology you're using for the
back-end and front-end: htlatex, latex2html, tex4ht, Java, XSLT,
Javascript, ASP, JSP, PHP,...

For the record: CSS3 will include column support, and modern browsers
http://www.css3.info/preview/multi-column-layout/

Quite right, I'd missed that. Thanks for the correction.

///Peter