\documentclass{article} \usepackage[!viewMagWin,!preview]{artthreads} \usepackage{multicol,lipsum} \hypersetup{colorlinks} \setAddToBorder{addtow=10bp,addtoh=10bp} \begin{document} \noindent The two article threads: \setLink[\A{\Thread{Lipsum}}]{Read Lipsum} and \setLink[\A{\Thread{more Lipsum}}]{Read more Lipsum}. \setThreadInfo{title=Lipsum,author=D. P. Story,subject=Article thread test,keywords={AeB, PDF, LaTeX}}% \raggedcolumns \begin{multicols}{2} \noindent\makebox[0pt][r]{\showArticlePaneRead{}{11bp}\hspace{\marginparsep}}% \bArticle{lift=\baselineskip,width=\linewidth,height=\textheight-2\baselineskip}% \textsl{This is a series of paragraphs to fill the multi-columns of this document. It is imperative that we have a lot of text to fill these columns, but I fear that I don't know what to write.} \textsl{Well, here goes.} \lipsum[2] \textsl{That want well, more?} \lipsum[4] \textsl{Ok, I have the hang of it now.} \lipsum[6] \noindent\cArticle{lift=9\baselineskip,width=\linewidth,height=\textheight-2\baselineskip}\indent \textsl{Continuing now with} \lipsum[8] \textsl{I'm on a roll!} \lipsum[10] \end{multicols} \newpage \noindent\cArticle{lift=\baselineskip,width=\linewidth,height=1.5\baselineskip}% Same `article' but broken down into smaller pieces as an exercise. \setThreadInfo{title=more Lipsum,author=D. P. Story,subject=Article thread test,keywords={AeB, PDF, LaTeX}}% \begin{multicols}{2}\previewOn % locally turn on preview \noindent\bArticle{lift=\baselineskip,width=\linewidth,height=3in+3\baselineskip}% \textsl{This is a series of paragraphs to fill the multi-columns of this document. It is imperative that we have a lot of text to fill these columns, but I fear that I don't know what to write.} \textsl{Well, here goes.} \lipsum[2] \noindent\cArticle{lift=\baselineskip,width=\linewidth,height=4in-1.5\baselineskip}\indent \textsl{That want well, more?} \lipsum[4] \textsl{Ok, I have the hang of it now.} \lipsum[6] \noindent\cArticle{lift=9\baselineskip,width=\linewidth,height=4in+2\baselineskip}\indent \textsl{Continuing now with,} \lipsum[8] \noindent\cArticle{lift=\baselineskip,width=\linewidth,height=3in-\baselineskip}\indent \textsl{I'm on a roll!} \lipsum[10] \end{multicols} \end{document}