I'm writing a scientific article (two-column style), and I need to show some results in a table with lots of columns, so I have to put a page-width table in the bottom of the page. How can I do?
[Tex/LaTex] Table (page width) in multicol
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Related Solutions
If you need an overall twocolumn layout, you could use the twocolumn option.
If you want to have a figure with a caption inside the multicol environment, you could use the caption package. The separation between the columns can be adjusted by the length columnsep. The width of the columns depends on the available text width, of course. See the following example:
\documentclass{report}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{caption}
\setlength{\columnsep}{3cm}
\begin{document}
\chapter{A chapter}
\begin{multicols}{2}
\lipsum[1-2]
\bigskip
\rule{0.8\columnwidth}{1cm}
\captionof{figure}{A figure}\label{figure1}
\bigskip
\lipsum[3]
\end{multicols}
\chapter{Another chapter}
See figure~\ref{figure1}.
\begin{figure}%
\rule{0.8\columnwidth}{1cm}
\caption{Another figure}
\label{figure2}
\end{figure}
\chapter{A third chapter}
See figure~\ref{figure2}.
\end{document}
(The lipsumpackage is only for producing the sample text, it is not part of the solution.)
\documentclass[a5paper]{article}
\usepackage{multicol,caption}
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\newenvironment{Figure}
{\par\medskip\noindent\minipage{\linewidth}}
{\endminipage\par\medskip}
\begin{document}
\begin{multicols}{2}
\lipsum[1]
\begin{Figure}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{foo}
\captionof{figure}{my caption of the figure}
\end{Figure}
\lipsum[1]
\end{multicols}
\end{document}
Defining a placement option is not possible inside the multicols environment.
Best Answer
Instead of using
\documentclass[twocolumn]{article}, you can control when to start and end the 2 columns usingmulticolpackage as follows