I am using RevTeX4 to write a two-column article for submission (my first serious attempt at such endeavours). In this article I will, unfortunately, need at least a couple of very long equations that cannot be split, and so requires the full width of both columns. I have searched the forums here as well as RevTeX's Author's Guide, and have found the widetext environment. I have included an MWE of its use below.
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\documentclass[a4paper,twocolumn,osajnl]{revtex4}
\usepackage{lipsum} %For the lipsum package
\begin{document}
%Setting up the header
\title{Requesting modified usage of \texttt{widetext}}
\author{ThomasTC}
\date{\today}
\begin{abstract} This document displays a \texttt{lipsum} example along with an equation typeset in the \texttt{widetext} enviroment \end{abstract}
\maketitle
%Main matter - This is where my issue is
\section{Main matter of my text}
\lipsum %Some text
\begin{widetext}
Insert a very long equation using the \texttt{cases} environment for two separate definitions.
\end{widetext}
\lipsum %Some more text
\end{document}What my issue is with this is, that I think it breaks the flow of reading considerably. What I would like was, that the text preceding the formula was typeset in a column, then printed the formula - and continued afterwards in the same column - i.e. I do not want the text to be forced into two balanced columns just because I want a long equation. Since I find it somewhat difficult to describe accurately in text, I have drawn a little sketch from an example-article in my possession. I have marked the reading direction with green arrows.
- Sketch of the desired text flow.
- latexexample.png (145.6 KiB) Viewed 11741 times
If anything is not clear in the above, please let me know, and I will try to explain further.
Best regards,
Thomas
PS: I hope this is the appropriate sub-forum - I thought it was more related to math than it was to RevTeX.
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