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I'm using paracol to build a document composed by a header, followed by text in two columns, as in the example:

\documentclass[11pt, a4paper]{article} \usepackage{paracol,lipsum} \begin{document} \lipsum[1] \vspace{1cm} \columnratio{0.29,0.69} \begin{paracol}{2} \setlength{\columnseprule}{0.4pt} \setlength{\columnsep}{2em} \begin{leftcolumn} \section{Section One} \lipsum [1-2] \end{leftcolumn} \begin{rightcolumn} \section{section two} \lipsum[3-4] \end{rightcolumn} \end{paracol} \end{document}

which gives:

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How can I remove the excess in the rule length above the section titles, but keeping the rule in the rest of the text? In other words: how can I set the rule length?

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First I fixed the line-breaking problem with \sloppy (SOP for narrow columns). Next I used \globalcounter{section} to fix the section numbers. Finally I erased the top part of the line between the columns with white-out.

\documentclass[11pt, a4paper]{article} \usepackage{paracol,lipsum} \usepackage{xcolor} \globalcounter{section} \begin{document} \lipsum[1] \vspace{1cm} \setcolumnwidth{0.29\textwidth,0.69\textwidth} \begin{paracol}{2} \setlength{\columnseprule}{0.4pt} \setlength{\columnsep}{2em} \begin{leftcolumn} \sloppy \section{Section One} \lipsum [1-2] \end{leftcolumn} \begin{rightcolumn} \section{section two} \leavevmode\llap{\smash{\color{white}\rule[\ht\strutbox]{\columnsep}{2cm}}}% erase top \lipsum[3-4] \end{rightcolumn} \end{paracol} \end{document}

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  • Under both MacTeX 2016 and 2017 (pretest) your code does not compile: Undefined control sequence. l.12 \columnratio {0.29,0.69}. Odd. I checked the documentation and everything looks right... Commented May 24, 2017 at 13:52
  • @sgmoye - In any case, it was being used incorrectly. Commented May 24, 2017 at 14:06
  • My bad. I found an old copy of paracol in my ~/texmf directory. Sorry for the noise. Commented May 24, 2017 at 14:07
  • I had to change the size of white thing covering the rule, but it worked well. Thanks! Commented May 25, 2017 at 16:35

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