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I took your advice and came up with the following, which almost works for placing a two-column-spanning figure at the top of a 3-column page:


\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{calc,multicol}
\begin ...

Thanks, that gets me almost there. However, it seems wrapfig always leaves some text in the column alongside the figure. I cannot get a wrapfigure environment to span the entire column width. If it does, a sliver of text is pushed out into the margin. I've attempted a similar approach using minipage ...

I'm trying to produce a newspaper using LaTeX and the papertex package. The pages will be 3-column or 4-column using the multicol environment. The only thing holding me up is there is a requirement to have graphics spanning only 2 columns, not across the entire 3- or 4-column page. I cannot find a ...

I couldn't find any hint of the declaration for the \ch command you are using. Thus there have to be some errors which should be found in the log file. I can only say that I get some.


The \ch command is defined at the very beginning of dchem.sty:


\@ifundefined{frozen@everymath}{% Old LaTeX ...

Thorsten, your results are interesting because $\ch H_2O$ and $\chm{H_2O}$ are equivalent commands according to dchem.sty, and both give the same result for me, with no errors reported but the problem of being typeset in CM font regardless of what font package I load. This problem with the fonts ...

Using Beamer and Donald Arseneau's dchem.sty package (my favorite package for typesetting chemistry), the fonts in dchem's chemistry environments are Beamer's default CM sans font, not the font specified in the preamble (like txfonts). For example, in:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{txfonts ...