[Tex/LaTex] Latex widetext environment without the lines

revtextwo-column

In a two column latex document, I use widetext environment which results in a line above and below the widetext. This is to guide the reader from the two column to the widetext but I want to get rid of it. How can I do it?

I tried using \onecolumngrid but this retained the line (it now stretches across both columns). Clearly, the lines can be manipulated, now I want to remove them.

MWE here.

\documentclass[aps,prl,twocolumn,balance,superscriptaddress,floats,showpacs,a4paper]{revtex4}
\usepackage{latexsym}
\usepackage{dcolumn}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{epsf}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{hyperref}

\begin{document}

Blah blah, blah blah blah blah

\begin{widetext}
Yada Yada Yada
\end{widetext}

Blah blah blah

\end{document}

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You can just copy the definition and comment out the offending bits:

\documentclass[aps,prl,twocolumn,balance,superscriptaddress,floats,showpacs,a4paper]{revtex4}
\usepackage{latexsym}
\usepackage{dcolumn}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{epsf}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\makeatletter

\renewenvironment{widetext@grid}{%
  \par\ignorespaces
  \setbox\widetext@top\vbox{%
   \vskip15\p@
   \hb@xt@\hsize{%
    \leaders\hrule\hfil
    \vrule\@height6\p@
   }%
   \vskip6\p@
  }%
  \setbox\widetext@bot\hb@xt@\hsize{%
    \vrule\@depth6\p@
    \leaders\hrule\hfil
  }%
  \onecolumngrid
%  \dimen@\ht\widetext@top\advance\dimen@\dp\widetext@top
%  \cleaders\box\widetext@top\vskip\dimen@
  \let\set@footnotewidth\set@footnotewidth@ii
}{%
  \par
%  \setbox\widetext@bot\vbox{%
%   \hb@xt@\hsize{\hfil\box\widetext@bot}%
%   \vskip14\p@
%  }%
%  \dimen@\ht\widetext@bot\advance\dimen@\dp\widetext@bot
%  \cleaders\box\widetext@bot\vskip\dimen@
  \twocolumngrid\global\@ignoretrue
  \@endpetrue
}%

\makeatother

\begin{document}

Blah blah, blah blah blah blah

\begin{widetext}
Yada Yada Yada Yada Yada Yada Yada Yada Yada Yada Yada Yada
\end{widetext}

Blah blah blah

\end{document}

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I had a similar issue with a widetext environment overlapping an equation environment, I solve it using \begin{align}...\end{align} instead of \begin{equation}...\end{equation} for the overlapped equation, in your case try

\begin{align}
E(b)&=\int\limits_{-\infty}^{\infty}\varphi_2^*(x)\left(-\frac{1}{2}\frac{d^2}{dx^2}+x^{2p}\right)\varphi_2(x)\ dx=\\
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Yes, you are right; they are basically the same; the widetext package defines its widetext environment using strip from cuted.sty, but adds the rules. In fact, the author of widetext says in the .sty file:

%% This package just defines the widetext environment and the rules.

The other difference is that widetext gives you indentation for the first line of paragraphs, but cuted doesn't; this is done by widetext, using the ineternal length \@parindent to store the value of \parindent before the environment, and then using this value inside the widetext (that's the meaning of the line \parindent \@parindent in widetext.sty).

An image comparing widetext and strip (notice, in particular, the indentation for widetext but not for strip):

\documentclass[twocolumn]{scrartcl}
\usepackage{lipsum,widetext}

\begin{document}
\lipsum[4]
\begin{strip}
\lipsum[4]
\end{strip}
\lipsum[4]
\begin{widetext}
\lipsum[4]
\end{widetext}
\lipsum[4]

\end{document}

enter image description here

In short:

Advantages of widetext: the rules and indentation for the firs line of paragraphs. I personally don't the rules much, but they are there "to guide the reader" (the idea of the rules was taken from the widetext environment defined in revtex4.cls).

Disadvantage of widetext; the author didn't take any precautions to prevent the rules to be detached from the text; so you can get the initial rule at the bottom of a page, then the text beginning on the next page.

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