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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label mcfloat</title>
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<h3>Floats in multicolumn setting</h3>
<p/>If you use
<blockquote>
<pre>
\begin{figure}
  ...
\end{figure}
</pre>
</blockquote><p>
in a <code>multicols</code> environment, the figure won&#8217;t appear.  If
instead you use
<blockquote>
<pre>
\begin{figure*}
  ...
\end{figure*}
</pre>
</blockquote><p>
the figure will stretch right across the page (just the same as a
<code>figure*</code> in standard LaTeX&#8217;s <code>twocolumn</code> option).
<p/>It&#8217;s possible to have single-column figures and tables with captions,
using the &#8216;<code>[H]</code>&#8217; placement option introduced by the <i>float</i>
package but you might have to fiddle with the placement because they
won&#8217;t &#8216;float&#8217;, and exhibit other strange behaviours (such as silently
running off the end of the column at the end of the
<code>multicols</code> environment).
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<dt><tt><i>float.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/float.zip">macros/latex/contrib/float</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/float/">browse the directory</a>)
<dt><tt><i>multicol.sty</i></tt><dd>Distributed as part of <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/tools.zip">macros/latex/required/tools</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/tools/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/multicol.html">catalogue entry</a>
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<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=mcfloat">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=mcfloat</a>
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