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Hi.
How to know what number of columns is appropriate for a publication?

Beats the s**t out of me.

Why not do some research yourself before asking stupid questions?

That's what he is doing.
Not effectively, of course, because the people he is asking (us) have no more idea than he has

I thought there are some authors among you.

Mike Truran wrote:Beats the s**t out of me.

Why not do some research yourself before asking stupid questions?

How to do the research? I don't know what keywordd I am supposed to google. appropriate +colums+wordreturns how to make 2 colum layouts, but what I am asking for is, why some books have 2-column layout and some books/magazines have 3 column layout

Assuming that you are talking about a chess book, I think you need to decide first how many board diagrams you are going to use and how big they are.
If there are a lot of diagrams then they will probably fit better into a 2 column layout. With a single column, you would have a lot of white space on either side of the diagrams.

Clive Blackburn wrote:Assuming that you are talking about a chess book, I think you need to decide first how many board diagrams you are going to use and how big they are.
If there are a lot of diagrams then they will probably fit better into a 2 column layout. With a single column, you would have a lot of white space on either side of the diagrams.

The same applies to notation - lists of moves in a game will look much better in 2 columns

soheil_hooshdaran wrote: why some books have 2-column layout and some books/magazines have 3 column layout

I am sure there are numerous reasons, one of the simplest being of what looks best and wastes least space in the selected paper size.

soheil_hooshdaran wrote:Hi.
How to know what number of columns is appropriate for a publication?

I you know which publication it is intended for, just browse through some back copies and see what their usual format is

Mike Truran wrote: Why not do some research yourself before asking stupid questions?

Because starting threads is what that particular board user does.

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A man should have a hobby, I suppose.

Jonathan Bryant wrote:

Mike Truran wrote: Why not do some research yourself before asking stupid questions?

Because starting threads is what that particular board user does.

6 of current most recent 18 threads in the General Chess Forum
8 of current most recent 8 threads in Chess Questions
8 of current most recent 20 threads in Not Chess.


A man should have a hobby, I suppose.

You could make treads as well, if you are unhappy

Jonathan Bryant wrote:A man should have a hobby, I suppose.

And the hobby of some people is irritating others.