[texhax] how to have footnote formatted to full width in twocolumn latex document?

[Reinhard Kotucha]

Thanh Han The writes:

 > can anyone please give me a hint on how to format footnotes
 > to full width in a two column latex document (using the
 > standard latex twocolumn option, not the multicol
 > package) as below:
 > 
 > 
 > text text text text      text text text text
 > text text text text      text text text text
 > text text text text      text text text text
 > text text text text      text text text text
 > text text text text      text text text text
 > text text text text      text text text text
 > text text text text      text text text text
 > text text text text      text text text text
 > text text text text      text text text text
 > text text text text      text text text text
 > 
 > footnote footnote footnote footnote footnote
 > footnote footnote footnote footnote footnote
 > footnote footnote footnote footnote footnote

Hi Thanh,
I suppose that you looked into Robin's FAQ already.  As far as I
understand, it is unlikely that there is a solution.

The LaTeX manual (Lamport) says that both, \twocolunm and \onecolumn
start a new page.  I fear that these commands switch between two
output routines and the twocolumn output routine more or less treats
a column like page.  If this is true it's hard to achieve what you
want.  

All the best,
  Reinhard

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