Good morning/day/evening/night!
I'm in a situation where I need to fit a full width (i.e. paper wide) table into a single page multicolumn document and there seems to be some underlying conflict with the table* environment and the \maketitle command.
What I would like is:
- Primarily help with getting the table onto the first page
- Secondly getting some understanding on why there is a problem in the first place
Here is a MWE
\documentclass[
10pt,
twocolumn
]{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\title{test}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\lipsum[1]
\begin{table}
\setlength{\tabcolsep}{4pt}
\centering
\footnotesize
\begin{tabular}{c|c}
col 1 & col 2\
val 1 & val 2\
\end{tabular}
\end{table}
\end{document}
This results in a two page pdf where the table is on the second page, and I need it on the first page. To avoid posting something that has already been solved somewhere on StackExchange I looked around a bit and have found a couple of related posts, a few are these
- Table on the same page as Chapter Title
- \twocolumn[{\begin{@twocolumnfalse} explained
- title and abstract and table of contents in the same page
- Forcing a full-width table to be on the same page as it is mentioned in two-column document?
- Page-wide table in two-column mode
and I've tried the proposed solutions to no avail. The last in the list states that for table* environments only t (top of page) and p (end of document) are allowed and my problem might have something to do with this.
So hopefully someone here can provide a solution, and if this is not even possible to do that would also be good to know.
In either case, thanks for your time and help!
