[Tugindia] suspending two column mode temporarily

[David Kastrup]

"mihir gore" <mihirgore at hotmail.com> writes:

> I want to place a figure in a article with two column. The figure is
> quite big.. so when I am placing the figure can I suspend the two
> column mode temporarily?

Your LaTeX manual should have mentioned the figure* environment, and
the sttools package offers a few more placement options than the
LaTeX defaults.

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