Hi I'm looking for a way to make a long equation span both columns in a double column article. I've searched the mailing list and found two old threads about this (see below).
A solution to the newer message was to: "After you have inserted the figure float, set the cursor behind the word 'Figure' and choose 'standard' instead of 'caption' in the format menu." I don't see Format menu and I could not find a way to remove word 'Figure' in Lyx 1.4.2 WinXP. Is there another way of doing this? A footnote spanning two column and having no footnote counter would do also, but I don't know how to do that either. Thank you very much Leo Old thread:continued: Double-column equation (Feb 05, 2004) ------------------------------------------------- I want one of those equations you usually put with Ctrl-Shift-M that usually take a full line, to span both columns in a two-column equation. I found the following in the archive back from august 2003 >On Mon, 03 Mar 2003 11:01:48 -0800, Dekel Tsur wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 11:37:47AM -0500, Frederic Leymarie wrote: >> could someone tell me how to make an equation >> take the full page width in a 2-column article document ? >Insert the equation into a wide figure float: >In LyX 1.2.x: Insert->Floats->Wide figure >In LyX 1.3.x: Insert->Floats->Figure, and then press the right mouse button > on the figure frame, and select the "span columns" button. The question would be: Doing this i have the ugly 'Figure:' caption going around, breaking symmetry with the rest of equations which doesnt dock like that, so if i want to do this, i must somehow do _all_ equations like this to preserve document uniformity There are already new ways to do this? :)
