sommer@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU (01/03/91)
I've been trying to figure out psfig.sty, but there wasn't much
documentation. From psfig.sty itself:
% \psfig
% usage : \psfig{file=, height=, width=, bbllx=, bblly=, bburx=, bbury=,
% rheight=, rwidth=, clip=}
% "clip=" is a switch and takes no value, but the `=' must be present.
My .ps files are all encapsulated PS with BoundingBox info.
In particular, I need to control a lot of figure heights.
\psfig{file=test1.ps} works fine. But \psfig{file=test1.ps, height=<len>}
messes up and my figures come out in the wrong places on the page and
scaled incorrectly. I've tried <len> = a number with no dimension; 2in;
150pt; etc. I've tried it with and without the ``='' (height 2in).
Sometimes <len> gets typeset in the figure box in my output!
What is the correct format to use for \psfig when trying to scale by
figure height?
Thanks in advance. (<-- Can I use \expandafter{Thank you}{Reply} for that?)sommer@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU (01/05/91)
>What is the correct format to use for \psfig when trying to scale by >figure height? First, I thank everyone for helping with my \psfig problem, of which, it turns out, there were actually two. (1) spaces are not allowed in the argument of \psfig{...} (2) use TeX \centerline{\psfig{ ... } } instead of LaTeX \begin{center} (Even though \begin{center} \psfig{p1.ps} \end{center} WORKS \begin{center} must be taking offense in the height part of \psfig.) \psfig{p1.ps, height=2in} FAILS \begin{center} \psfig{p1.ps,height=2in} \end{center} FAILS \centerline{\psfig{p1.ps,height=2in}} WORKS
rig@eng.umd.edu (Ronald Greenberg) (01/18/91)
In article <00942389.81613420@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU> sommer@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU writes: >>What is the correct format to use for \psfig when trying to scale by >>figure height? > >First, I thank everyone for helping with my \psfig problem, of which, it >turns out, there were actually two. > >(1) spaces are not allowed in the argument of \psfig{...} >(2) use TeX \centerline{\psfig{ ... } } instead of LaTeX \begin{center} > >(Even though \begin{center} \psfig{p1.ps} \end{center} WORKS >\begin{center} must be taking offense in the height part of \psfig.) > >\psfig{p1.ps, height=2in} FAILS >\begin{center} \psfig{p1.ps,height=2in} \end{center} FAILS >\centerline{\psfig{p1.ps,height=2in}} WORKS I believe I once had this centering problem without using "height" (but there were "bbllx", "bblly", ...). The fix I used was \centering \mbox{\psfig{figure=foo,bbllx=...}} The use of \centering versus the environment shouldn't be of relevance to the issue under discussion, but the idea of putting the thing in an \mbox may be a more general way to make things work when you use LaTeX macros around it. -- Ron Greenberg rig@umiacs.umd.edu
eijkhout@s41.csrd.uiuc.edu (Victor Eijkhout) (01/19/91)
rig@eng.umd.edu (Ronald Greenberg) writes: >In article <00942389.81613420@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU> sommer@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU writes: >>(2) use TeX \centerline{\psfig{ ... } } instead of LaTeX \begin{center} >The use of \centering versus the environment shouldn't be of relevance >to the issue under discussion, but the idea of putting the thing in an >\mbox may be a more general way to make things work when you use LaTeX >macros around it. The LaTeX \begin{center} environment is for centering paragraphs, \psfig generates a box, which is not sufficient to start a paragraph, therefore it is not centered. The author of psfig was aware of this problem, but his repair (last time I looked at the macros) was wrong. Basically you have to start a paragraph, which is done by \mbox, because it contains \leavevmode. You could also write \begin{center} \ \psfig{... or \begin{center} \leavevmode\psfig{... Victor.