[Tex/LaTex] How to place a multicolumn figure above a single column figure and a single column table

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I would like to place the following on the same page:

A double column figure
A single column figure
A single column table

I want the placement to look something like this:

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You can set a multitude of things inside a floating environment. Below I've created a single figure* floating environment for capturing the wide (two-column) figure. However, just below it (inside the same float), I've set a table and another figure inside minipages, making it seem like they are separate and columnar.

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\documentclass[twocolumn]{article}
\usepackage{lipsum,capt-of,graphicx}% http://ctan.org/pkg/{lipsum,capt-of,graphicx}
\usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry}% Just for this example
\begin{document}
\lipsum[1-7]

\begin{figure*}
  \centering\includegraphics[width=.7\linewidth,height=2in]{example-image-a}\par
  \caption{This is a figure caption}

  \vspace*{\floatsep}

  \begin{minipage}{.5\linewidth}
    \centering\begin{tabular}{ccc}
      \hline
      One & Two & Three \\
      Three & One & Two \\
      Two & Three & One \\
      \hline
    \end{tabular}
    \captionof{table}{This is a table caption}
  \end{minipage}%
  \begin{minipage}{.5\linewidth}
    \centering\includegraphics[width=.6\linewidth]{example-image-b}
    \captionof{figure}{This is a figure caption}
  \end{minipage}
\end{figure*}%

\lipsum[8-14]
\end{document}

The placement of the figures will always be on top and on the page following the placement within your document text. capt-of helps out with the placement of float-like captions.

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[Tex/LaTex] Join figure and table on the same page

I gather that the figure should be at the very top of a page, to be followed immediately by the table environment. (Moreover, I'm taking for granted that the two environments will actually fit on a single page, right?)

You could achieve these objectives by loading the afterpage package and "encasing" the figure and table environments in an \afterpage{...} statement, as is shown in the following code fragment:

\afterpage{%    % defer execution until the next page break occurs anyway
   \begin{figure}[t!] % not "pt"
      \centering
      % remaining contents of figure environment
   \end{figure}
   \begin{table}[h!] % not t or b or p
      \centering
      % remaining contents of table environment
   \end{table}
} % end of argument of `\afterpage` command

I'm further assuming that there are no deferred figure and/or table environments already waiting to be typeset. If that were the case, you should issue a \clearpage instruction as the very first item in the argument of the \afterpage command. (Even if there are no accumulated deferred floats to take care of, there's no harm done by issuing a \clearpage instruction anyway at the start of the \afterpage material; it would simply be ignored by TeX.)

In addition, if the figure and table environments combined take up most of the page (say, more than 75% of the page), you may also want to issue a second \clearpage instruction, following the end of the table environment. This will tell LaTeX that you want to have just those two floats on the page in question.

[Tex/LaTex] How to get a double column verbatim in a single column table, in a double column document

Here's one possible solution using the twocolumn class option and figure* and two minipages to typeset the listings (since figure* was used, the listings will appear on the top of the next page):

\documentclass[twocolumn]{article}
\usepackage{listings}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\begin{document}

\lipsum[1-6]
\begin{figure*}
\begin{minipage}[t]{0.5\textwidth}
\begin{lstlisting}
if (i<=0) then i := 1;
if (i>=0) then i := 0;
if (i<>0) then i := 0;
\end{lstlisting}
\end{minipage}%
\begin{minipage}[t]{0.5\textwidth}
\begin{lstlisting}
if (i<=0) then i := 1;
if (i>=0) then i := 0;
\end{lstlisting}
\end{minipage}%
\caption{Two  side-by-side listings}
\label{fig:listings}
\end{figure*}
\lipsum[1-6]

\end{document}

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And here's now another option: instead of using the twocolumn document option, the multicol package is used to produce the text in two-column mode; the multicols environment is ended, the side-by-side listings are typeset using simple minipages (the caption package was used to produce a possible caption using \captionof), and then another multicols environment begins:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage{listings}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\begin{document}

\begin{multicols}{2}
\lipsum[1-2]
\end{multicols}
\noindent\begin{minipage}{\textwidth}
\begin{minipage}[t]{0.5\textwidth}
\begin{lstlisting}
if (i<=0) then i := 1;
if (i>=0) then i := 0;
if (i<>0) then i := 0;
\end{lstlisting}
\end{minipage}%
\begin{minipage}[t]{0.5\textwidth}
\begin{lstlisting}
if (i<=0) then i := 1;
if (i>=0) then i := 0;
\end{lstlisting}
\end{minipage}%
\captionof{figure}{Two  side-by-side listings}
\label{fig:listings}
\end{minipage}
\begin{multicols}{2}
\lipsum[1-2]
\end{multicols}

\end{document}

In this last option, the usual restriction of multicol with floats apply.

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