Suppose you want to put a full-width figure at the top of your ACL paper, as seen in the example below.
The \figure*{} macro does not work to insert a full-width figure above the abstract in the ACL template for some reason. Thus, we need to hack together a command that does it for us.
This command does a few things:
- Breaks out of the document rendering defined by the ACL template with
strip - Manually implements a hacked Figure macro with manually-written "Figure 1:", manual font size setting, etc.
- Manually sets the figure count variable to not duplicate "Figure 1"