Multi-column Layout of Images and Text

When writing academic papers or professional journal articles, multi-column layout is often required.

Lattics provides two methods for multi-column layout:

1. Manual multi-column layout：

   You can create a multi-column layout by dragging a block element such as paragraph, picture, or table after or before another block element. In this way, you can place multiple pictures, text paragraphs, or tables side by side, or place them up and down in the left or right column. You can also adjust the width of each column by moving the dividing line between columns, and then you can get very beautiful layouts.

   This method is completely through manual control. Its advantage is that it is very flexible, and its disadvantage is that if you want to put a lot of content into columns, it will require very complicated manual operations, so it is suitable for use when you need to display multiple pictures or tables side by side.

   Notice: For beautiful layout and easy export of PDF or Doc file , Lattics limits the number of columns as three.

2. Automatic multi-column layout:

   You can create a multi-column layout by using the / menu, or by selecting some content and then using the Shift + Ctrl/Cmd + 2 shortcut keys to create one. The multi-column layout created in this way will automatically layout the content to minimize the height, and cannot be manually laid out. To cancel the automatic multi-column layout, please move the mouse to the upper left corner of the multi-column layout and click the single-column icon on the far left to restore the multi-column layout to a single-column layout.

   You can also set the background color, border style, top and bottom margins, number of columns, and spacing between columns for the columns layout in the style template. The default number of columns is 2, which can be switched to 3.

   This automatic multi-column layout is especially suitable for scenarios where most of the main text content needs to be laid out in multi-column format, such as academic papers. It will automatically layout the content, and when exporting PDF and Word documents, it will also automatically arrange appropriate multi-column content for each page. Its disadvantage is that it cannot be manually intervened, and its content will be displayed in the left column first, and then in the right column. When there is a lot of text content, it may not be suitable for reading in the Lattics editor, because the Lattics editor does not paginate. You may need to read the left column first, and then fold back to the top of the article to read the right column content.

   Therefore, this automatic multi-column layout method strongly recommends that you set the required content to multi-column mode after you have completed the content writing and checking, and then to export it to PDF or Word,