rankin@s3snorkel.ARPA (Tom Rankin) (10/25/90)
I've exhausted all of my patience and resources trying to solve these
problems. With any luck, someone here can offer salvation.
I am using:
TeX, C Version 2.93
LaTeX Version 2.09 - Released 19 April 1986
My source is written using the report style, however, changing to the
book style didn't seem to effect any of my results in the least. I
haven't tried the article style since I'm using \chapter sectioning
(and article.sty doesn't have \chapter).
Here are my problems:
1. Location of figures.
I'm attempting to specify that I would like my figures to appear
"here", as in *right* *here*!, using the following construct:
\begin{figure}[h]
[...contents of figure...] \end{figure}
The figures are consistently coming up at the *end* of my
document, not in-line as desired (and as advertised by the "here"
location specifier). Very frustrating. How do I have to hold my
mouth to get this to work?
2. Centering the tabbing environment within a figure.
I'm trying to center a \tabbing environment using either of the
following constructs:
\begin{figure}[h]
\centering
\begin{tabbing}
[...tabbing stuff...]
\begin{tabbing}
\end{figure}
OR
\begin{figure}[h]
\begin{center}
\begin{tabbing}
[...tabbing stuff...]
\end{tabbing}
\end{center}
\end{figure}
The result is the same in both cases, the material withing the tabbing
environment ends up left justified.
I do have a couple of figures that use the tabular environment and
they center properly using the same two techniques. Although I could
probably use the tabular environment in place of the tabbing one I'm
using, it would be a misuse of the tabular environment (the tabbing
environment, on the other hand, serves my purpose *exactly* -- except
I can't get the damn thing centered on the page).
3. Getting \samepage to work as advertised.
I've tried on numerous occasions to creat sections of text that are
delimited on the top and the bottom by \rule lines (used for
in-line EXAMPLES). I'd like to get the entire example to appear on a
single page without stranding part of the example (usually a single
rule line) on a separate page. My attempt to get this to happen looks
like this:
{\samepage
\noindent
\rule{127mm}{.1mm}
\vspace{-2mm}\\
{\large \bf EXAMPLE:} Example Title \\
[...text of example]
\noindent
\rule{127mm}{.1mm}
}
but the \samepage environment seems to be wholly ignored. The results
are the same with or without the \samepage declaration. By the way,
these examples are much shorter than a full page, so they should be
able (at the very least) to be pushed onto the top of a following page.
Hep me, hep me...please!
Tom Rankin
rankin@scubed.scubed.com
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--------------------------------------------------------------------------bts@unx.sas.com (Brian T. Schellenberger) (11/07/90)
In article <457@scubed.SCUBED.COM> rankin@scubed.scubed.com (Tom Rankin) writes: |Here are my problems: | | 1. Location of figures. | | I'm attempting to specify that I would like my figures to appear | "here", as in *right* *here*!, using the following construct: | | \begin{figure}[h] | [...contents of figure...] \end{figure} | | The figures are consistently coming up at the *end* of my | document, not in-line as desired (and as advertised by the "here" | location specifier). Very frustrating. How do I have to hold my | mouth to get this to work? This will happen if there is not, in fact, room on the current page to put the figure right there. Thus, a "here" \figure is not the same as one that floats along with your text. If you want it to float, you are better off just putting in in-line and defining your own environment to bump up the numbering. | 2. Centering the tabbing environment within a figure. | | I'm trying to center a \tabbing environment using either of the | following constructs: | | \begin{figure}[h] | \centering | \begin{tabbing} | [...tabbing stuff...] | \begin{tabbing} | \end{figure} | | OR | | \begin{figure}[h] | \begin{center} | \begin{tabbing} | [...tabbing stuff...] | \end{tabbing} | \end{center} | \end{figure} | | The result is the same in both cases, the material withing the tabbing | environment ends up left justified. Sorry, but centering doesn't center tabbed lines; if it did, it would end up (by the nature of things) centering each line, which would be *really* silly. The best you can do is to the put the tabbing environment in a \parbox or \minipage, experimenting 'til you get the width right. Then *that* will center. | 3. Getting \samepage to work as advertised. | | I've tried on numerous occasions to creat sections of text that are | delimited on the top and the bottom by \rule lines (used for | in-line EXAMPLES). I'd like to get the entire example to appear on a | single page without stranding part of the example (usually a single | rule line) on a separate page. My attempt to get this to happen looks | like this: | | {\samepage | \noindent | \rule{127mm}{.1mm} | \vspace{-2mm}\\ | {\large \bf EXAMPLE:} Example Title \\ | [...text of example] | \noindent | \rule{127mm}{.1mm} | } \samepage is weird and, for my purposes pretty thouroughly worthless. Try putting this stuff in a \minipage or \parbox instead, and it *has* to stick together. -- -- Brian, the Man from Babble-on. bts@unx.sas.com -- (Brian Schellenberger) "And when the votes were cast, the winner was . . . Mister James K. Polk, Napolean of the stump." -- THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS.