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Wide figure/table in a twocolumn/multi-column document

30. July 2012 by tom 11 Comments

The floating environments figure* and table* allow adding wide, single-column tables or figures in a two- or multicolumn document. Here is an example.   Wide figure in a 3-column-document The example makes use of the multicol package. For two columns, it is sufficient to use the documentclass-option twocolumn. The starred version of figure, figure*, and … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Figure & table, LaTeX, Tips & tricks Tagged: dblfloatfix, figure, fixltx2e, LaTeX, multicol, single column, table, usepackage, wide figure




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