I am trying to use the Royal Society of Chemistry's latex article template for formatting my manuscript.
With the given template,everything works fine. However,when I try to include a (highly desirable) customised single-column content immediately after the abstract (formatted using the mdframed package),the typesetting of all subsequent sections goes haywire. I am attaching the typeset messy PDF here. The content that I am trying to insert is titled 'Broader Context'.
Any help to fix this issue is much appreciated.I do not wish to begin a new page for the broader context. I simply want to place the broader context frame box immediately after the abstract, and then continue onto introduction section without any pagebreak anywhere.
Here is my source code. I am sorry that it is a bit too long (most content comes from the journal's template itself). The exact code will not compile unless the figures from the journal's template are downloaded and extracted. However, I am just looking for a proof-of-concept method which will work in an example simpler document which you may choose to use.
\documentclass[twoside,twocolumn,9pt]{article}
\usepackage{extsizes}
\usepackage[super,sort&compress,comma]{natbib}
\usepackage[version=3]{mhchem}
\usepackage[left=1.5cm, right=1.5cm, top=1.785cm, bottom=2.0cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{balance}
\usepackage{times,mathptmx}
\usepackage{sectsty}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{lastpage}
\usepackage[format=plain,justification=justified,singlelinecheck=false,font={stretch=1.125,small,sf},labelfont=bf,labelsep=space]{caption}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{fnpos}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{droidsans}
\usepackage{charter}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[usenames,dvipsnames]{xcolor}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage[compact]{titlesec}
\usepackage{hyperref}
%%%Please don't disable any packages in the preamble, as this may cause the template to display incorrectly.%%%
\usepackage{epstopdf}%This line makes .eps figures into .pdf - please comment out if not required.
\usepackage{mdframed}
\definecolor{broader_background}{RGB}{230,226,214}
\newmdenv[linecolor=white,frametitle=Broader Context]{broadercontextbox}
\definecolor{cream}{RGB}{222,217,201}
\begin{document}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\thispagestyle{plain}
\fancypagestyle{plain}{
%%%HEADER%%%
\fancyhead[C]{\includegraphics[width=18.5cm]{head_foot/header_bar}}
\fancyhead[L]{\hspace{0cm}\vspace{1.5cm}\includegraphics[height=30pt]{head_foot/journal_name}}
\fancyhead[R]{\hspace{0cm}\vspace{1.7cm}\includegraphics[height=55pt]{head_foot/RSC_LOGO_CMYK}}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
}
%%%END OF HEADER%%%
%%%PAGE SETUP - Please do not change any commands within this section%%%
\makeFNbottom
\makeatletter
\renewcommand\LARGE{\@setfontsize\LARGE{15pt}{17}}
\renewcommand\Large{\@setfontsize\Large{12pt}{14}}
\renewcommand\large{\@setfontsize\large{10pt}{12}}
\renewcommand\footnotesize{\@setfontsize\footnotesize{7pt}{10}}
\makeatother
\renewcommand{\thefootnote}{\fnsymbol{footnote}}
\renewcommand\footnoterule{\vspace*{1pt}%
\color{cream}\hrule width 3.5in height 0.4pt \color{black}\vspace*{5pt}}
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{5}
\makeatletter
\renewcommand\@biblabel[1]{#1}
\renewcommand\@makefntext[1]%
{\noindent\makebox[0pt][r]{\@thefnmark\,}#1}
\makeatother
\renewcommand{\figurename}{\small{Fig.}~}
\sectionfont{\sffamily\Large}
\subsectionfont{\normalsize}
\subsubsectionfont{\bf}
\setstretch{1.125} %In particular, please do not alter this line.
\setlength{\skip\footins}{0.8cm}
\setlength{\footnotesep}{0.25cm}
\setlength{\jot}{10pt}
\titlespacing*{\section}{0pt}{4pt}{4pt}
\titlespacing*{\subsection}{0pt}{15pt}{1pt}
%%%END OF PAGE SETUP%%%
%%%FOOTER%%%
\fancyfoot{}
\fancyfoot[LO,RE]{\vspace{-7.1pt}\includegraphics[height=9pt]{head_foot/LF}}
\fancyfoot[CO]{\vspace{-7.1pt}\hspace{13.2cm}\includegraphics{head_foot/RF}}
\fancyfoot[CE]{\vspace{-7.2pt}\hspace{-14.2cm}\includegraphics{head_foot/RF}}
\fancyfoot[RO]{\footnotesize{\sffamily{1--\pageref{LastPage} ~\textbar \hspace{2pt}\thepage}}}
\fancyfoot[LE]{\footnotesize{\sffamily{\thepage~\textbar\hspace{3.45cm} 1--\pageref{LastPage}}}}
\fancyhead{}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}
\setlength{\arrayrulewidth}{1pt}
\setlength{\columnsep}{6.5mm}
\setlength\bibsep{1pt}
%%%END OF FOOTER%%%
%%%FIGURE SETUP - please do not change any commands within this section%%%
\makeatletter
\newlength{\figrulesep}
\setlength{\figrulesep}{0.5\textfloatsep}
\newcommand{\topfigrule}{\vspace*{-1pt}%
\noindent{\color{cream}\rule[-\figrulesep]{\columnwidth}{1.5pt}} }
\newcommand{\botfigrule}{\vspace*{-2pt}%
\noindent{\color{cream}\rule[\figrulesep]{\columnwidth}{1.5pt}} }
\newcommand{\dblfigrule}{\vspace*{-1pt}%
\noindent{\color{cream}\rule[-\figrulesep]{\textwidth}{1.5pt}} }
\makeatother
%%%END OF FIGURE SETUP%%%
%%%TITLE, AUTHORS AND ABSTRACT%%%
\twocolumn[
\begin{@twocolumnfalse}
\vspace{3cm}
\sffamily
\begin{tabular}{m{4.5cm} p{13.5cm} }
\includegraphics{head_foot/DOI} & \noindent\LARGE{\textbf{This is the title$^\dag$}} \\%Article title goes here instead of the text "This is the title"
\vspace{0.3cm} & \vspace{0.3cm} \\
& \noindent\large{Full Name,$^{\ast}$\textit{$^{a}$} Full Name,\textit{$^{b\ddag}$} and Full Name\textit{$^{a}$}} \\%Author names go here instead of "Full name", etc.
\includegraphics{head_foot/dates} & \noindent\normalsize
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\end{tabular}
\end{@twocolumnfalse} \vspace{0.6cm}
]
%%%END OF TITLE, AUTHORS AND ABSTRACT%%%
\vspace{-20mm}
\begin{@twocolumnfalse}
\vspace{1mm}
\sffamily
\begin{tabular}{p{18cm}}
\begin{broadercontextbox}[backgroundcolor=broader_background]
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pretium ut, sapien. Suspendisse placerat lectus venenatis lorem. Sed accumsan aliquam enim.
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\end{broadercontextbox}
\end{tabular}
\end{@twocolumnfalse}
%%%FONT SETUP - please do not change any commands within this section
\renewcommand*\rmdefault{bch}\normalfont\upshape
\rmfamily
\section*{}
\vspace{-1cm}
%%%FOOTNOTES%%%
\footnotetext{\textit{$^{a}$~Address, Address, Town, Country. Fax: XX XXXX XXXX; Tel: XX XXXX XXXX; E-mail: xxxx@aaa.bbb.ccc}}
\footnotetext{\textit{$^{b}$~Address, Address, Town, Country. }}
%Please use \dag to cite the ESI in the main text of the article.
%If you article does not have ESI please remove the the \dag symbol from the title and the footnotetext below.
\footnotetext{\dag~Electronic Supplementary Information (ESI) available: [details of any supplementary information available should be included here]. See DOI: 10.1039/b000000x/}
%additional addresses can be cited as above using the lower-case letters, c, d, e... If all authors are from the same address, no letter is required
\footnotetext{\ddag~Additional footnotes to the title and authors can be included \textit{e.g.}\ `Present address:' or `These authors contributed equally to this work' as above using the symbols: \ddag, \textsection, and \P. Please place the appropriate symbol next to the author's name and include a \texttt{\textbackslash footnotetext} entry in the the correct place in the list.}
%%%END OF FOOTNOTES%%%
%%%MAIN TEXT%%%%
The main text of the article\cite{Mena2000} should appear here.
\section{Introduction}
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\subsection{Tables}
Tables typeset in RSC house style do not include vertical lines. Table footnote symbols are lower-case italic letters and are typeset at the bottom of the table. Table captions do not end in a full point.\cite{Arduengo1992,Eisenstein2005}
\begin{table}[h]
\small
\caption{\ An example of a caption to accompany a table}
\label{tbl:example}
\begin{tabular*}{0.48\textwidth}{@{\extracolsep{\fill}}lll}
\hline
Header one (units) & Header two & Header three \\
\hline
1 & 2 & 3 \\
4 & 5 & 6 \\
7 & 8 & 9 \\
10 & 11 & 12 \\
\hline
\end{tabular*}
\end{table}
Adding notes to tables can be complicated. Perhaps the easiest method is to generate these manually.\footnote[4]{Footnotes should appear here. These might include comments relevant to but not central to the matter under discussion, limited experimental and spectral data, and crystallographic data.}
\end{document}
