Hello Mehul, 

for HTML you would need to find/modify/write your own css template. I find the relatively recent Bootstrap package rather convenient for doing things like that because it defines a grid right away out of the box and gives you the means for defining columns and rectangular areas (boxes). http://getbootstrap.com. See http://getbootstrap.com/getting-started/#examples and http://getbootstrap.com/examples/jumbotron-narrow/ 

There is a package integrating orgmode export with bootstrap called o-blog. https://github.com/renard/o-blog. Here is an example of source code in a second column next to text: 

http://renard.github.io/o-blog/index.html (scroll down a little after the large heading "Quick Start Guide"). 

Iannis Zannos

On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 6:01 AM, Mehul Sanghvi <mehul.sanghvi@gmail.com> wrote:

On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 10:48 PM, Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> wrote:

Mehul Sanghvi <mehul.sanghvi@gmail.com> writes:

> How do I get two column output with org-mode ?  I'm not looking for
> tables but more like what you get in a newspaper article.  Is that
> possible to do with org-mode ?  
>
> For the most part this is for publishing to HTML and PDF.
>

For LaTeX/PDF, this should suffice:

#+LATEX_CLASS_OPTIONS: [twocolumn]

For HTML, I have no idea.

One of the things I would like to do is be able to have two side-by-side source code blocks so that I can do a comparison of the two. 

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Mehul N. Sanghvi
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