General ⇒ Make a figure automatically span two pages?

[helgiks]

Hello. I am writing a paper that includes allot of long poetry (maybe 12 verses 4 lines each) so I'd wanted to be in two (or possible three) columns to save space, make it span multiple pages and be caption. So my question is, is that possible? - If not do you know an alternative that would achieve what I want?

I am doing it something like this but the problem is that some of them are to long to display on one page
so I'd like the to be able to span the next page if it needs to (but not splitting it in to two figures and use \ContinuedFloat.

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\makeatletter
\renewcommand{\verbatim@font}{%
        \rm\small
}
\makeatother
\floatstyle{plain}
\newfloat{poem}{htp}{lop}
\floatname{poem}{Poem}
[...]
\begin{poem}
        \begin{minipage}[b]{0.5\linewidth}
                \centering
                        Undarlegt sambland af frosti og funa,
                        fjöllum og sléttum og hraunum og sjá;
                        fagurt og ógurlegt ertu þá brunar
                        eldur að fótum þín jöklunum frá!
        \end{minipage}
        \hspace{0.5cm}
        \begin{minipage}[b]{0.5\linewidth}
                \centering
                        Fjör kenni´ oss eldurinn, frostið oss herði,
                        fjöll sýni torsóttum gæðum að ná;
                        bægi sem kerúb, með sveipanda sverði
                        silfurblár Ægir oss kveifarskap frá.
        \end{minipage}
        \caption{Tvö vers úr Ísland eftir Bjarna Thorarensen}\label{ljod:islandbt}
\end{poem}

[kaiserkarl13]

I'm not sure why you'd want to make it a caption, since it's a poem, not a caption. Captions are descriptive text regarding some object like a table, figure, reaction scheme, etc. If by "be caption" you meant "give it a caption," such as "Poem 1: Ode to a Mountain," then see below (basically, define it as a new theorem, only it's a poem).

As far as the multicolumn poetry: try combining the multicol environment from the multicol package with the quotation or verse environments (the latter is especially suited for, and designed for, long poetry).

I'd recommend using something like the newtheorem command (amsmath package) to define a "poem" environment or similar; this will print a heading with a number and its own counter if you desire numbers. You don't have to put theorems in it, but that's what it was designed to do.