[net.text] Doing somethings with TeX

ramin@rtgvax.UUCP (06/14/86)

I am trying to make the following table in Tex (or LaTeX)...

+-----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
|                                   | Date:                           |
|                                   +---------------------------------+
|                                   | Time:                           |
|                                   +---------------------------------+
|                                   | Place:                          |
+-----------------------------------+---------------------------------+

With several lines of \Large letters in the box on the left hand side
and a series of left justified texts (above) in the other three...
The line-boxes around them are rule-boxes.

Basically the issue involves putting together a number of horizontal
and vertical boxes together to fill a page.
I would really like to see how one could make a page consisting of a number of 
inter-locking boxes of various sizes with text located within various
places in each box (i.e. centered, top-left aligned, etc...)

+-----+---+--------+----+
|     |   |        |    |
|     +---+        |    |
|     |   +--------+    |
+-----+   |        |    |
|     |   +--------+----+
|     +---+-------------+
+-----+-----------------+

Well, you get the idea...
I will definitely repost any responses I get... (after trying them out
first (:-) and if I figure it out will also repost a followup...
The TeXBook chapter on Alignment is rather sparse with its description 
of these types of functions...

Thanks much...

ramin


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chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek) (06/16/86)

In general, if you want to string together a bunch of boxes in
TeX that are not necessarily `well aligned' with each other,
you will do better to build a set of \hbox es and \vbox es and
just paste them together as appropriate.  This is in effect
an approximation of what `tbl' does with troff (but can probably
be done more accurately, if more verbosely).
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rusty@weyl.Berkeley.EDU.BERKELEY.EDU (& Wright) (06/17/86)

with latex you can generally nest environments.  for example, you can
nest the tabular environment:

\begin{tabular}{|p{4in}|c|}
\hline
 ... arbitrary lines of text ... &
\begin{tabular}{l}
\hline
first line \\
\hline
second line \\
\hline
third line \\
\hline
etc. \\
\hline
\end{tabular} \\
\hline
\end{tabular}

\end{document}
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bob@islenet.UUCP (Bob Cunningham) (06/18/86)

>I am trying to make the following table in Tex (or LaTeX)...
>
>+-----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
>|                                   | Date:                           |
>|                                   +---------------------------------+
>|          box 1                    | Time:                           |
>|                                   +---------------------------------+
>|                                   | Place:                          |
>+-----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
>
>With several lines of \Large letters in the box on the left hand side
>and a series of left justified texts (above) in the other three...
>The line-boxes around them are rule-boxes.

Try.....

\offinterlineskip
\hrule
% with \setbox1=\vbox{\Large \hsize \something \noindent \strut text... \strut}
% where \something is the size of interest, say 30pc
\line{
	\vrule
	\box1
	\vrule
	\vbox{
		\hbox{\strut \quad Date: \hfil}
		\hrule
		\hbox{\strut \quad Time: \hfil}
		\hrule
		\hbox{\strut \quad Place: \hfil}
		}
	\vrule
	}
% if the height of box1 turns out to be greater than the sum of
% the heights of the stacked hboxes (and the little extra added
% by the hrules) then you'll need to add some extra glue or fill
% to even them out.
% similarly, if text ends up being set in the bottom of box1,
% and you want it at the top (or middle), add extra glue or fill
% to fix.

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