Makeing mainmatter one column about arabica HOT 4 CLOSED

Hi Tom,

telling your LaTeX compiler (e.g. XeLaTeX see PS) explicitly that you want to have a one-column layout by substituting -'twocolumn' with -'onecolumn' in /00_00_settings.yaml should do the trick.

For a two-side, one-column layout your settings should look something like:

classoption:
  - 'twoside'
  - 'onecolumn'

For one-side, one-column layout:

classoption:
  - 'oneside'
  - 'onecolumn'

Let me know if it works.

Cheers,
Martin

PS: With the arabica boilerplate your LaTeX compiler gets invoked by pandoc via the command line argument --pdf-engine=xelatex. See also the pandoc manual for more information

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Thanks for that Martin,
So I did some tests and your suggestion does work... However, I have discovered that adding a table in the following MD format causes the onecolumn layout to revert to twocolumn for any subsequent pages:

---------------    ------------------------------------------------------- 
DC                 Department for Communities
FOIA               Freedom of Information Act
---------------    -------------------------------------------------------`

So it was the introduction of my markdown that revealed the bug. Any suggestions for fixing this?
Tom

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Thanks for pointing this out, @anthillsocial. This was indeed a bug.

This bug was introduced because I adopted a hack form nrnrnr@github and Marco [email protected]. I incorporated this hack into the template file arabica.latex because by default pandoc uses the LaTeX package longtable to

allow tables to flow over page boundaries.

The longtable.sty package works fine for documents in one-column mode. As far as I know it does not work with documents in two-column mode. To make the two-column mode and the longtable package work together we have to redefine \longtable (see Marco [email protected]).

I changed the redefinition of \longtable. The redefinition now entails a snipped to switch back to the one-column/two-column mode conditionally depending on the given class option for the scrbook class. You should now be able to switch back and forth between one-column/two-column mode for your document by setting the according values in the 00_00_settings.yaml file i.g. - 'onecolumn' or - 'twocolumn' respectively.

I hope this solves the issue.

Cheers

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Thank's Martin - all working as expected now. Literally, as I received your message I worked what the problem was - i'm relatively new to Latex so it been a bit of a learning curve!
Tom

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