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maartjez · Post by **maartjez** » Mon May 04, 2009 3:30 pm

Hi,
I'm working on a paper that has a two-column lay-out. I have several equations that I want to spread out over two columns instead of one. I have tried to use the figure* environment, but since the equations need to stay at the same location this doesn't work for me. What I want is:

text text
equation
text text
equation

etcetera. I think it is possible, because I've seen it in a (LaTeX formatted) journal.
Thanks for helping out!
Cheers, Maartje

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Post by **localghost** » Mon May 04, 2009 3:53 pm

An appropriate solution already exists [1]. The code provided there by Juanjo should be what you need.

[1] View topic: long equation across whole page in two-column document

Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten¹

maartjez · Post by **maartjez** » Tue May 05, 2009 9:05 am

@ Thorsten,
Thanks for your reply and the warm welcome

Unfortunately I'm still not able to fix this. I'm writing a paper for a Springer journal, so a LaTeX file with svjour3 document class is already provided (and the paper is in 2 columns). Is there maybe a package that 'knows' the widepage command?
Cheers,
Maartje

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