General ⇒ Problem with a twocolumn documentclass

[pallav]

I am using a springer tex file. I am getting trouble some problems as follows:
1. I want to get both my tables and large figures (also, sometimes my long equations) in onecolumn i.e in wide form (though my documentclass is twocolumn)
2. Unable to get the envelop sign after the name of the corresponding author. I have used (getting help from here) the following code

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\usepackage{bbding}
\Huge\Envelope

I am really not able to solve all those problems. I got many help from this site. I am very much thankful to the moderators and users of this site.

[cgnieder]

1. use the starred forms \begin{figure*}... and \begin{table*}...
2. bbding and ifsym are incompatible as they both define some symbols with the same name. If you only need \Envelope from bbding you can define it yourself without loading bbding:

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   \makeatletter
   \newcommand\Envelope{{\fontencoding{U}\fontfamily{ding}\selectfont\symbol{'014}}}
   \makeatother

What's more:

• you defined the label fig:subfig1_RD_origin twice
• caption doesn't know the class and probably won't work as expected. It tells you so in the log:

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  Package caption Info: Unknown document class (or package),
  (caption)             standard defaults will be used.
  )
  
  Package caption Warning: Unsupported document class (or package) detected,
  (caption)                usage of the caption package is not recommended.
  See the caption package documentation for explanation.

• you cannot use \Huge in math mode as it is a text font command. It will have no effect. The log says

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  LaTeX Font Warning: Command \Huge invalid in math mode on input line 123.

Regards

[pallav]

Thank you very much for your help. I have benefited from your post. Still I have the problem regarding the envelop (or letter) symbol after the name of the corresponding author. Also, I am not able to solve the caption issue that you have suggested.

The starred table and figure suggestion are nicely worked.

I have uploaded the tex and the log. The svjour3.cls and svglov3.clo are uploaded in my previous post.

[cgnieder]

Still I have the problem regarding the envelop (or letter) symbol after the name of the corresponding author. Also, I am not able to solve the caption issue that you have suggested

What exactly is the problem the the envelope? When I compile your tex file the envelope shows up where it is supposed to, although I'd probably lower it a bit.

As for the caption package: just don't load it then the warning disappears. You're not using it for anything as it seems.

I have uploaded the tex

Thanks for that! I'd prefer it if you'd posted minimal working examples instead, though.

Regards

[pallav]

Thanks for your suggestion. Here is the desired tex

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\documentclass[twocolumn]{svjour3}
\usepackage[parfill]{parskip}
\usepackage{float, graphicx,subfig,psfrag,latexsym}
\makeatletter
\newcommand\Envelope{{\fontencoding{U}\fontfamily{ding}\selectfont\symbol{'014}}}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\title{T I T L E}
\author{ghi}%etc.
\institute{
ghi (\Envelope) \at
 Department of  \\
\email{abc@abc.com} }
\date{Received: date / Accepted: date}
\maketitle
\end{document}

I am also uploaded the log and the pdf. Note that the svjour3.cls and svglov3.clo are uploaded in my previous post.

[cgnieder]

This is strange... it works for me and I can see no apparent differences between you log and mine:

envelope.png (4.75 KiB) Viewed 9041 times

[pallav]

My log shows

Package caption Info: Unknown document class (or package),
(caption) standard defaults will be used.
)

Package caption Warning: Unsupported document class (or package) detected,
(caption) usage of the caption package is not recommended.

LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `OT1/cmr/bx/n' in size <16> not available
(Font) size <17.28> substituted on input line 15.

LaTeX Font Info: Calculating math sizes for size <8.5> on input line 15.

LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `OML/cmm/m/it' in size <8.5> not available
(Font) size <8> substituted on input line 15.

Then is there any problem in the code? Also, I have not used caption package, then why the 1st warning is coming? I don't know why I am not getting the letter symbol whereas you are getting the same using the same code?

[cgnieder]

My log shows

Package caption Info: Unknown document class (or package),
(caption) standard defaults will be used.
)

Package caption Warning: Unsupported document class (or package) detected,
(caption) usage of the caption package is not recommended.

[...] Also, I have not used caption package, then why the 1st warning is coming?

Are you sure about that? In your first example it was kind of hidden but definitely loaded:

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\usepackage{booktabs,multirow,array,tabu,caption}

LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `OT1/cmr/bx/n' in size <16> not available
(Font) size <17.28> substituted on input line 15.

LaTeX Font Info: Calculating math sizes for size <8.5> on input line 15.

LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `OML/cmm/m/it' in size <8.5> not available
(Font) size <8> substituted on input line 15.

Then is there any problem in the code?

This means that some of the requested font sizes are not available and another (yet similar) size is used instead. Not too much to worry about if you're content with the result.

As for the missing envelope - if you have used the exact same code you posted last time I have no idea. Maybe someone else can help here.

Regards

[pallav]

The above code i.e.

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\documentclass[twocolumn]{svjour3}
\usepackage[parfill]{parskip}
\usepackage{float, graphicx,subfig,psfrag,latexsym}
\makeatletter
\newcommand\Envelope{{\fontencoding{U}\fontfamily{ding}\selectfont\symbol{'014}}}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\title{T I T L E}
\author{ghi}%etc.
\institute{
ghi (\Envelope) \at
 Department of  \\
\email{abc@abc.com} }
\date{Received: date / Accepted: date}
\maketitle
\end{document}

gives the log file test3. A warning is given regarding caption. Yes, I have used the that code.

[cgnieder]

Indeed! I ckecked and found that the `subfig' package loads `caption' internally. But since there doesn't seem to be any side effects you can probably ignore the warning for now, anyway.

Regards