bRotheRs (and sisteRs who might have responded after I posted this),
My heartfelt thanks to you all. I had interpreted "figure*" as "the
command 'figure' with a wildcard after it", and assumed that I had to
discover what arcane suffixes might be appended to "figure". The
following lines got the image on the page:
\begin{figure*}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{hypertens.pdf}
\caption{\label{figure:hypertens}
Reported hypertension by age, sex and alcohol consumption}
\end{figure*}
Charlie, I might have been lucky that the figure was placed just after a
page break, but it worked. The figure was centered on its own page, but
at least I have gotten a working file. Also thanks for the pointer to
the Latex wiki, I will definitely consult this if I must undertake this
sort of thing again.
Rolf, when I tried this:
\usepackage{float} %in the "wrapper" file
\begin{figure*}[H]
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{hypertens.pdf}
\caption{\label{figure:hypertens}
Reported hypertension by age, sex and alcohol consumption}
\end{figure*}
the figure disappeared entirely. Without the asterisks, I got the single
column figure again.
Mike, when I tried your suggestion, the figure was there, but still in
the single column format.
This all conforms to my own little corollary to Murphy's Law:
"There are many more ways to get something wrong than to get it right"
Jim
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