Graphics In Tables

Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Date: 1996/02/05

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&selm=4f4jj0%2438a%40pss100.psi.ch

>How can I include pictures and tables, which exceed 2 one column in the
>twocolumn mode? I want LaTeX to generate me a two-columns document, but it
>should put some of my images over the two columns.
>
>I know I can do something with \twocolumn[] code, but this command starts a
>new page, leaving too much blank lines in my processed document. What is a
>better solution to this problem?

Use the figure* (or table*) environment, which can be used both in twocolumn mode or (usually better) with the multicol package.

Alain Kessi