Page Layout ⇒ working solution for multicol package and floats?

[alexander van loon]

Please take a look at my tex file and the resulting PDF document. It's a document in the Dutch language, by the way.

I'm using the memoir article document class with two columns. The built-in functionality for dividing the document in two columns didn't work well for me because I wanted the abstract and the bibliography to be displayed in one column on the page together with the content in two columns. After some searching the multicol package turned out to be what I needed.

However, I'm having trouble with some tables. Currently they are displayed on the last page, but I want them inside the multicols environment, either at the top or bottom of the page where I placed them. They are so wide that they need one column instead of two. According to the multicol package documentation starred floats are supported, as are their option t or b for top or bottom. But that doesn't work.

I found a solution advising to use the float package here and tried using \floatplacement{table}{H}, which I placed inside the document environment directly above the table (removing the placement option of \begin{table*}) but that didn't make any difference. Another solution found here advises placing some stuff in the preamble and then replacing \begin{table*} with \begin{tablehere}. That doesn't work either.

I'd appreciate it very much if anyone could help, because the table placement is driving me totally mad.

[alexander van loon]

Fixed, see the tex file and the resulting PDF document again.

It became apparent that the tables where placed inside the multicols environment as I added more text to my document. When I simply placed my first table closer to the beginning of the document, LaTeX placed it where I wanted it. All that happened without either of the two solutions I mentioned in my previous post, the floats package was useless, just starred floats will do the trick.