On 15/03/2022 14:23, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote:
> Ignoring the little birdie who told me not to, I downloaded the
> following template because it looked nice and started writing my
> article. This is in 2 col mode
The built-in twocolumn is really not the way to go these days, IMHO. The
multicol package offers much more, including the ability to switch out
of multiple columns back to single column without breaking the page.
> Now, I have a wide table that is definitely more wide than 1 col and
> when I plug the code for the table, I get blank pages before the
> table. The table is rendered OK though not exactly where I wanted.
> How do I use \textwidth to make the table span the 2 col for the above
> article cls I used?
Have you tried using \begin{table*}...\end{table*} (along the same lines
as figure*)?
Peter