I am writing a paper (revtex4-1, reprint documentclass which I believe uses twocolumn) and need to have a long equation that needs to break the two column format. I've seen answers to this question using multicol but I can't use that class. So does anyone know how to do this from twocolumn class?
I have tried one way that makes the equation a figure but I can't get the alignment with the text correct.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
The widetext environment changes the formatting from two-column to one-column to better accommodate very long equations that are more easily read when typeset to the full width of the page:
\documentclass[twocolumn]{revtex4-1}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\lipsum[1]
\begin{widetext}
[
a + b + c + d + e + f + g + h + i + j + k + l + m + n + o + p + q
]
\end{widetext}
\lipsum[1]
\end{document}
Note that the lipsum package and commands is used only for adding dummy text.
lipsumand its command\lipsumis just added to provide some dummy/filler text. – Speravir Mar 27 '14 at 03:52! LaTeX Error: File 'widetext.sty' not found.is it a normal cse? – alper Apr 20 '22 at 12:17widetextpackage, it's an environment defined byrevtex4-1. – Mateus Araújo Feb 07 '23 at 09:29