tony@cm.deakin.oz.au (Anthony D. Klemm) (12/17/90)
Help!
Sorry to trouble people, but I have a problem.
I am writing an article and am using an environmental
layout as per the LATEX guide "Essential LATEX" by Jon Warbrick.
This sets up two minipages alongside each other -- in his case
in order to have manual type examples i.e.,
xxxxxxxxxxxxx|aaaaaaaaaaaaa
yyyyyyyyyyyy |bcd efg
|dddddddd ddd
zzzzzzzzzzzz | eeeee eee
^(This is to represent the
separation of sides. It is
not a vertical line)
The commands work OK if both sides are text. However my problem
example is whan the left side is text and the right side is
a picture. The result is that the picture is offset i.e.,
| |
|_____________
| |
| |
xxxxxxxxxxxxx|
yyyyyyyyyyyy |
|
zzzzzzzzzzzz |
If I specify the reference x-offset and y-offset as (0,0) the
result does not change. If I specify them as (0,55) then what
happens is that the picture moves DOWN to the text and a gaping
hole is left above i.e.,
|
|
|
|
xxxxxxxxxxxxx| |
yyyyyyyyyyyy |_____________
| |
zzzzzzzzzzzz | |
Anyway, below is a bare-bones version of the environment with
the offending example. To try it just cut off where indicated.
If anyone can offer a solution I would appreciate it.
%----cut here for example------------******
\documentstyle[12pt,a4]{report}
\begin{document}
\pagestyle{plain}
\textwidth 6in
\textheight 8.5in
\topmargin 0in
% commands to do 'LaTeX Manual-like' examples
% This is the side-by-side box environment creator
% copied from Jon Warbrick's "Essential LATEX"
\newlength{\egwidth}\setlength{\egwidth}{0.42\textwidth}
\newenvironment{eg}%
{\begin{list}{}{\setlength{\leftmargin}{0.05\textwidth}%
\setlength{\rightmargin}{\leftmargin}}\item[]}%
{\end{list}}
\newenvironment{egbox}%
{\begin{minipage}[t]{\egwidth}}%
{\end{minipage}}
\newcommand{\egstart}{\begin{eg}\begin{egbox}}
\newcommand{\egmid}{\end{egbox}\hfill\begin{egbox}}
\newcommand{\egend}{\end{egbox}\end{eg}}
% This is the first use of the above environment in
% which one side of the pair is script and the other a picture
The question that should \underline{always} be asked is:
\nolinebreak
\egstart
\underline{Is there a solution}?
\vspace{5mm}
For the above function
\vspace{5mm}
$f(1) = -1,\;\;\;f(2) = 5.$ \\
Now polynomials are continous.
Therefore at least one zero in
the interval $(1,2)$.
(Intermediate Value Theorem.)
\egmid%
\setlength{\unitlength}{1mm}
\begin{picture}(65,55)
\put(27,50){$f(x)$}
\put(30,0){\vector(0,1){49}}
\put(1,25){\vector(1,0){60}}
\put(62,24){$x$}
\end{picture}
\egend
\end{document}
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%Anthony D. Klemm
%Department of Computing & Mathematics , Deakin University,
%Victoria, 3217 . AUSTRALIA.
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%ACSnet: tony@cm.deakin.oz.au
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