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columns vs layout-ncol

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Since Oct 10, 2025.

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Description

The following document works in HTML but not in PDF:

---
title: A title
format: html
---

:::: columns

::: column
First column
:::

::: column
Second column
:::

::::

The following document works in PDF but not in HTML:

---
title: A title
format: pdf
---

:::: {layout-ncol="2"}

::: column
First column
:::

::: column
Second column
:::

::::

This is very disorienting. We need to fix it.

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