How could i insert a table or photo in documentclass[twocolumn]?

Question

I Need to insert a photo in documentclass[twocolumn], but without use blindtext or lipsum, and I need the photo be in the middle of page. and text above the photo does complete tow columns.

\documentclass[twocolumn]{article}
\usepackage{geometry}% http://ctan.org/pkg/geometry
\usepackage{lipsum}% http://ctan.org/pkg/lipsum
\usepackage{graphicx}% http://ctan.org/pkg/graphicx
\usepackage{multicol}% http://ctan.org/pkg/multicols
\begin{document}
hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello 
hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello
\begin{figure}[bt]
  \includegraphics[width=\textwidth,height=4cm]{example-image}
  \caption{example-image.}
\end{figure}
hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi 
\end{document}

Please show a sketch of the desired output. Where exactly should the image be placed? — leandriis, Aug 10 '20 at 13:07
Horizontal centered at bottom or top of page or somewhere around middle of the page? In the latter case see https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/368080/ — Zarko, Aug 10 '20 at 13:08
What's the problem with the lipsum or the blindext packages? — leandriis, Aug 10 '20 at 20:51

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Aug 15 '20 at 15:15

2

Yes it can ! (But my apology for the typo, it was multicols (and not multicol)!)

Here is a working MWE compiled with PdfLatex:

\documentclass[twocolumns]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}
\begin{multicols}{2}
[
\section{First Section}
All human things are subject to decay, and when fate summons, Monarchs must obey.
] % You can add some text that spans two columns using []
Hello, here is some text without a meaning.  This text should show what a printed text will look like at this place.
If you read this text, you will get no information.  Really?  Is there no information?  Is there...
\end{multicols}
\vspace{3pt} %This is optional
\begin{figure}[h]
    \includegraphics[width=\textwidth,height=5cm]{img1012}
    \caption{example-image.}
\end{figure}
\vspace{3pt} 
\begin{multicols}{2}
Hello, here is some text without a meaning.  This text should show what a printed text will look like at this place.
If you read this text, you will get no information.  Really?  Is there no information?  Is there...
\end{multicols}
\end{document}

edited Aug 15 '20 at 15:15

leandriis

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answered Aug 10 '20 at 20:20

Cedric

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This somehow looks like an addendum to your previous answer/a reply to the comment on your previour answer. Probably it yould be better to just edit/update said previour answer instead of adding a new, second one here. – leandriis Aug 15 '20 at 15:16
Regarding the contents of your answer: You claim that one can use multicols from the multicol package inside of a twocolumn article document and indeed show a result in which it apears to work. This is because the class option is called twocolumn instead of the twocolumns you used. This typo can easily be spotted when inspecting the warning you get when compiling your code. "Warning: Unused global option(s):". [...] – leandriis Aug 15 '20 at 15:21
[...] If one removes the extra "s" from the option, one gets an entirely different output and yet another warning informing us about multicol not working inside of a twocolumn document class: "Package multicol Warning: May not work with the twocolumn option" – leandriis Aug 15 '20 at 15:21

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 10 '20 at 20:50

Personally, I wouldn't recommend placing a wide image in the middle of a page as is makes is unclear for the reader where the text continues after the upper half of the left column. Do you continue reading in ht elower half of the left column or in the upper half of the right column? In the following MWE that is done using the strip environment from the cuted package and captionof from the caption package, the latter is the case:

\documentclass[twocolumn]{article}
\usepackage{cuted}
\usepackage{geometry}% http://ctan.org/pkg/geometry
\usepackage{lipsum}% http://ctan.org/pkg/lipsum
\usepackage{graphicx}% http://ctan.org/pkg/graphicx
\usepackage{caption}
\begin{document}
\section{Introducation}
hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello 
hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello
\begin{strip}
  \centering
  \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{example-image}
  \captionof{figure}{example-image.}
\end{strip}
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\end{document}

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 10 '20 at 15:07

Not being an expert, I'll only share how I found a solution when I had the similar issue. With the package multicol, you have the environment multicol that will indicate when the columns begin and end.

\begin{multicol}
\lipsum
\end[multicol}

followed by your image

\begin{figure*}[bt]
  \includegraphics[width=\textwidth,height=4cm]{example-image}
  \caption{example-image.}
\end{figure*}

Then use the environment multicol again

\begin{multicol}
\lipsum
\end[multicol}

That should be working.

thanks to answer, but you can't use multicol environment with documentclass[twocolumn]. — Mamoun Mohammed, Aug 10 '20 at 17:54

How could i insert a table or photo in documentclass[twocolumn]?

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