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I want to use (La)TeX for making a magazine. I want two
columns, but run into problems when using LaTeX's standaard
twocolumn option. There are two problems.

First:
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		When typesetting articles, I want something like

			article-1  article-1
			article-1  article-1
			article-1  article-1
			article-1  article-1
			article-1  article-1
	
			Title-2
			article-2  article-2
			article-2  article-2
			article-2  article-2
			article-2  article-2
			article-2  article-2

	When using standard LaTeX, the first article comes in the
	first column, and the second article in the second.

Second:
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		I want floats to go over column boundaries, like

			texttexttext   texttexttext
			texttexttext   texttexttext
			texttex+-----------+exttext
			texttex|  (float)  |exttext
			texttex+-----------+exttext
			texttexttext   texttexttext
			texttexttext   texttexttext
			texttexttext   texttexttext
			texttexttext   texttexttext
			texttexttext   texttexttext
			+-----------------+texttext
			|    (float)      |texttext
			|                 |texttext
			+-----------------+texttext
			texttexttext   texttexttext
		
		which is impossible with standard LaTeX macros.

I'm not a LaTeX expert, so I can't make the necessary macros
myself. Somewhere must be a TeX expert who has solved my
problems already.


Could someone *please* mail me the macros for making magazine
columns?

Many thanks.