My colleague is writing a paper for this journal. They use a rather strange format with wide left margin, combined with two-sided headers, see for ex. this paper.
They sent her a LaTeX template and it creates the left margin by putting white-coloured \lipsum into a wraptable...
Strange as it is, the template works, except that I do not know how to place figures and table so that they will stay in the text column - normal floating environments span the whole textwidth, while the published papers have figures aligned with the text column, as seen in the mentioned paper. (Though I have seen other papers using a full-width tables, so that is acceptable if the table is too wide for the column.)
Here, I post an MWE with an edited version of the template, together with my best attempts to place a figure in it:
\documentclass[a4 paper,11pt,twoside]{article}
\usepackage{fullpage} % Makes the page margins smaller to a predefined one.
\usepackage[lmargin=0.6in,rmargin=0.6in,tmargin=0.6in,headsep=.2in]{geometry}
\usepackage{wrapfig,lipsum,booktabs} % To produce the empty space on the left
\usepackage{xtab} % To produce the empty space on the left
\usepackage[dvipsnames]{xcolor}
\usepackage[normalem]{ulem}
\usepackage{amsfonts,graphicx}
\usepackage{mwe}
\usepackage[tableposition=top]{caption}
\captionsetup{labelfont+={bf,color=Brown},singlelinecheck=off}
\usepackage{sectsty}% http://ctan.org/pkg/sectsty
\allsectionsfont{\color{Brown}}
\makeatletter
\def@seccntformat#1{@ifundefined{#1@cntformat}%
{\csname the#1\endcsname;}% default
{\csname #1@cntformat\endcsname}% individual control
}
\def\section@cntformat{\thesection.;} % Dot after the section number
\def\subsection@cntformat{\thesubsection.;} % Dot after the subsection number
\makeatother
\usepackage{hyperref}
\hypersetup{
colorlinks=true,
urlcolor=blue,
linkcolor=black,
citecolor = black}
\urlstyle{same}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
% --------------- Normal Headers ------------------
\fancyhf{} % clear all fields
\fancyhead[LE,RO]{\textsf{W. S. Khedr}}
%\fancyhead[C]{Paper Title: Running Title}
\fancyfoot[LO,RE]{Scientific Research Publishing}
\fancyfoot[LE,RO]{\thepage}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{1pt} % to remove line on header
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{1pt} % to remove line on footer
% ------------------ Header for first page -----------------
\fancypagestyle{first}{%
\fancyhf{}% clear all header and footer fields
\fancyhead[L]{Scientific Research Publishing}%
\fancyfoot[L]{{\footnotesize \textsf{DOI: \href{10.4236/*.2024.*}{\color{blue}\uline{10.4236/.2024.**}} $;$** , 2024}}}%
\fancyhead[R]{{\bf\small \textsf{Journal of , 2024, , -*}}\
\href{http://www.scirp.org/journal/}{\color{blue}\uline{\textsf{http://www.scirp.org/journal/}}}\
\textsf{ISSN Online:-}\
\textsf{ISSN Print:-**}}%
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}% to remove line on header
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}% to remove line on footer
}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\begin{document}
\thispagestyle{first}
\vspace{3cm}
%%%%%%%%% TITLE %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
{\noindent\huge\bf Classical Fundamental Unique Solution for the Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equation in $\mathbb{R}^N$}\[1cm]
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Author Data %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
{\bf\large Waleed S. Khedr}\[0.5cm]
Independent Researcher, Cairo, Egypt\
Email: waleedshawki@yahoo.com\
%%%%%%%%%%% The Information Bar on the Left %%%%%%%%%%%
\begin{wraptable}{l}{5.1cm}
{\footnotesize
\begin{xtabular}{0.3\textwidth}{p{5cm}}
\noindent{\bf How to cite this paper:} Khedr, W. S. (2024) Classical Fundamental Unique Solution for the Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equation in $\mathbb{R}^N$, Journal of *, {\bf }, -*.\
\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/.2024.**}\
{\bf Received: ** , }\
{\bf Accepted: *** , }\
{\bf Published: *** , }\
Copyright \copyright$;$2024 by author(s) and Scientific Research Publishing Inc.\
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY 4.0).\
\url{http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/}\
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% IMPORTANT FOR AUTHORS %%%%%%%%
% Copy and paste the following line depending on the number of full pages in your document (i.e. before using the template)
{\color{white}\lipsum[1-60]}% If the number of pages is less than 15
%{\color{white}\lipsum[1-60]}% uncomment if the number of pages is more than 15 and less than 30
%{\color{white}\lipsum[1-60]}% uncomment if the number of pages is more than 30 and less than 45
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\end{xtabular}
}
\end{wraptable}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% The Abstract and Keywords %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
{\color{Brown}\rule{0.7\textwidth}{2pt}}\[0.2cm]
{\color{Brown}\bf\large Abstract}\
\lipsum[1]
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% The Document Starts Here %%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\section{Introduction}
\lipsum[1-2]
\begin{figure}
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{example-image-16x9}
\caption{Image ‘example-image-16x9’ from package mwe.}
\label{fig:1}
\end{figure}
We can see that Fig~\ref{fig:1} spans the whole width of the page\dots
\lipsum[1-1]
\noindent
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{example-image-a}
Image ‘example-image-a’ has the correct width, but no caption\dots
\lipsum[1-1]
\begin{minipage}[b]{\linewidth}
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{example-image-b}
\captionof{figure}{Image ‘example-image-b’ from package mwe.}
\label{fig:b}
\end{minipage}
Fig.~\ref{fig:b} is using minipage. It has the correct width, but does not respect the column\dots
\lipsum[1-1]
\noindent
\parbox{\linewidth}{%
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{example-image-c}
\captionof{figure}{Image ‘example-image-b’ from package mwe.}
\label{fig:c}
\bigskip
}
Fig.~\ref{fig:c} is using parbox and respects the column -- but one has to be careful with placement\dots
\lipsum[1-1]
\noindent
\parbox{\linewidth}{%
\medskip
\captionof{table}{Dummy table with caption}
\label{tbl:test}
\centering
\vspace{-1ex}
\begin{tabular}{cc}
\toprule
abc & def \
qwerty & asdfg \
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\bigskip
}
Table~\ref{tbl:test} is also using parbox\dots
\lipsum[1-1]
\end{document}
There, you can see that the best I could do was to place the figures in a \parbox - but this requires careful placement around page borders, otherwise one gets a lot of wasted vertical space.
In this sense, it would be better to do it with something floating...
Another alternative is to ignore the template's solution and replicate the design using variable margin and header definitions, but I did not manage to do that. The biggest issues were:
- getting the first page correct, including the left block
- have text with left-side margin, but headers and footers that span the whole width and have alternating formatting on odd and even pages
