sommer@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU (12/18/90)
Can anyone help with the following Q's? If anything is ftp'able, please tell from where. If I have to modify code, please give me obvious hints. I'm mostly a LaTeX'er, not a TeX'er but spend a lot of time trying to figure things out on my own. 1. I'm creating EPS files using ChemDraw on a MacII and importing them with epsf.sty, which is mostly great! Because floating bodies in LaTeX are one of its weakest features, what I'd really like is an \epsf*Y*size alternative to the \epsfxsize macro in epsf.sty. That way, I have a better chance of squeezing my figures into otherwise awkward VERTICAL spaces on the page. Advice, please on how to modify the \epsfxsize macro or to write (invent a few new names and switch every x for y?) an \epsfysize macro? (I know there's an optional bounding box (\epsfbox[x y x' y']{foo.ps}) form of \epsfbox, but I have lots of formulas and want things automatically and properly scaled to fit spaces after I see the first printout.) 2. Strangely, using \footnote, I at least get figures placed reasonably, sort of. But when I reformat JUST the footnotes into \cite - \bibitem groups, I get two floats on the first page but everything else gets dumped to pages after \thebibliography. \documentstyle[epsf]{article} \setcounter{totalnumber}{6} \setcounter{topnumber}{4} \setcounter{bottomnumber}{4} \renewcommand{\topfraction}{1.0} \renewcommand{\bottomfraction}{1.0} \begin{document} \special{header=chemdraw_laserprep.pro} With this one, I at least get many figures on the first several pages. Only a tough case will cause things to get dumped to the end. This is the text.\footnote{This is a footnote.} This is a figure. \begin{figure}[h] \begin{center} \leavevmode \epsfbox{p1.ps} \end{center} \end{figure} Etc. \dots \end{document} [...] same as above, except no footnotes. I use\cite{foo} instead. I get two floats on the first page, then everything goes to the end, after the bibliography section. Playing around with [htb] and other stuff doesn't seem to help. \begin{thebibliography}{00} \bibitem{foo}{This is a bibitem.} [...] \end{thebibliography} \end{document} 3. Does anyone have a way of making bottom-of-page numbered footnotes (rather than endnotes from the \thebibliography section) using \cite{foo} - \bibitem{foo}{text} type macros? I frequently re-cite my footnotes. Or, put differently, does anyone have a way of associating a \label with a \footnote so I can$^\ref{foo}$ re-use the number? I already have a modified cite.sty that makes superscripted numbers in the text, but that's the only change. ... all for now. Thanks in advance.