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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label widefigs</title>
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<h3>Wide figures in two-column documents</h3>
<p/>Floating figures and tables ordinarily come out the same width as the
page, but in two-column documents they&rsquo;re restricted to the width of
the column.  This is sometimes not good enough; so there are alternative
versions of the float environments &mdash; in two-column documents,
<code>figure*</code> provides a floating page-wide figure (and <code>table*</code> a
page-wide table) which will do the necessary.
<p/>The &ldquo;<code>*</code>&rdquo;ed float environments can only appear at the top of a page,
or on a whole page &mdash; <code>h</code> or <code>b</code> float placement directives are
simply ignored.
<p/>Unfortunately, page-wide equations can only be accommodated inside
float environments.  You should include them in <code>figure</code> environments,
or use the <i>float</i> or <i>ccaption</i>package to define a
new float type. 
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<dt><tt><i>ccaption.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ccaption.zip">macros/latex/contrib/ccaption</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ccaption.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ccaption/">browse</a>)
<dt><tt><i>float.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/float.zip">macros/latex/contrib/float</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/float.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/float/">browse</a>)
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<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=widefigs">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=widefigs</a>
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