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+<head>
+<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label wideflt</title>
+</head><body>
+<h3>Centring a very wide figure or table</h3>
+<p/>The normal means of centring a figure or table object is to include
+<code>\</code><code>centering</code> at the top of the float. This doesn&rsquo;t help if the
+object is wider than <code>\</code><code>textwidth</code> &mdash; the object starts at the left
+margin and juts out into the right margin (which is actually doubly
+unsatisfactory, since as well as looking bad, the float won&rsquo;t be
+placed until the next <code>\</code><code>clearpage</code> or the like.)
+<p/>You can avoid the problem by rescaling the figure or table to fit, but
+this is often not satisfactory, for several reasons.
+<p/>Otherwise, if the object is wider than the printable area of the page,
+you&rsquo;ve no choice other than to <a href="FAQ-landscape.html">rotate it</a>. If,
+however, the object is <em>just</em> wider than the text block, you can
+make it pretend to be the right size by:
+<blockquote>
+<pre>
+\begin{figure}
+ \noindent
+ \makebox[\textwidth]{\includegraphics{my-wide-figure}}%
+ \caption{This figure juts out into both margins}
+\end{figure}
+</pre>
+
+</blockquote><p>
+Note the <code>\</code><code>noindent</code>: the <code>\</code><code>makebox</code> starts a paragraph, and you
+really don&rsquo;t want that indented by <code>\</code><code>parindent</code>.
+<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=wideflt">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=wideflt</a>
+</body>