Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Create Figure that spans the Width of the Text

[cvanloon]

I am using a journal document class that formats the text of the document to two columns. I would a figure to break these two columns (be the entire width of the paper) and be at the top or bottom of a page. I have come across minipage, but am not sure yet how to do it. Any ideas?


Thanks
-Chris

[localghost]

For an adequate problem description please provide a minimal example that is compilable as is. Otherwise the discussion remains academic and we stumble in the dark here.

Your problem is usually solved by using the figure* environment.


Thorsten