Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Date: 1997/03/03
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> : I would like to > : include an encapusulated postscript file (which is a > : figure) across both columns, as shown below. > > \begin{figure*}...\end{figure*}
just beware you might need play with float specifiers, etc. to get the order of the figures to be correct (e.g., figure 4 appears before figure 5). the double-column floats and the single-column floats are not "linked" as far as placement is concerned.
bil