Re: [MiKTeX] mix of double column and single column form

[Steve S. <sj...@es...>]

At 01:19 28/02/2003, xu ming Lai wrote:

>Hi, everyone.
>
>I am writing a paper. I need to try most of the content in two column form. However, 
>
>some of my matrices, tables and figures are too big to fit into single columns. Is there any ways to make part of the page to be single column and the rest of the page to be double columns? Or I should write the matrics, table or figures in a different ways. Any help is appreciated. Thanks very much.

For figures and tables the simple answer is to use \begin{figure*} or \begin{table*}. When in
two-column mode, these cause the figure or table to occupy two columns. In single column mode
they work just the same as the unstarred versions. For your matrices I think you can use the
figure* environment, but do not include a caption, and the text will float (top of the page is
usually best).

Steve


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Dr Steve Sangwine
Department of Electronic Systems Engineering
University of Essex
UK