djmcclur@cs.toronto.edu ("David J. McClurkin") (12/06/90)
There are 2 things that I need to be able to do, and I'm
hoping that some knowledgeable TeX user will be able to help me.
1) I need to create a macro that will display text as follows:
|<----- preceeding text goes from here to here -------------->|
Both of these boxes contain The right boundary
flush left text. of this box (i.e. the right
The left margin of this end of the longest line)
box is aligned with is aligned with the
the normal left normal right margin.
margin
The problem seems to be that one cannot create a vbox or parbox whose
width is simply that of the longest line inside (its "natural" width).
2) I want to use headings that look like:
4.1 This is the Heading. This is the following text of the section...
by using a command like
\subsection{This is the Heading}
(blank line here)
This is the following text...
In other words I need to be able to skip over blank lines between
the \subsection command and the actual text of the subsection, without
beginning a new paragraph. \ignorespaces doesn't seem to ignore
carriage returns, just space tokens. Is there an analog that will
ignore carriage returns as well; of can we redefine the catcode for
cr and somehow return it to normal when the actual text of the
subsection begins?
I'm hoping that the answers to both questions are trivial.
Thanks in advance for helping me.
Dave McClurkineijkhout@s41.csrd.uiuc.edu (Victor Eijkhout) (12/07/90)
djmcclur@cs.toronto.edu ("David J. McClurkin") writes: >1) I need to create a macro that will display text as follows: > |<----- preceeding text goes from here to here -------------->| > Both of these boxes contain The right boundary > flush left text. of this box (i.e. the right >The problem seems to be that one cannot create a vbox or parbox whose >width is simply that of the longest line inside (its "natural" width). I fail to see what the problem and the above statement have to do with each other. What is the `preceding text'? If that is the last line of a paragraph I agree that you have a small problem. Otherwise, it is something that you put there, so you know how big it is. Give me some more info. >2) I want to use headings that look like: > 4.1 This is the Heading. This is the following text of the section... You are using LaTeX? Macros \section, \subsection, et cetera are implemented in the style files in terms of a primitive \@startsection that is specified as follows: % \@startsection {NAME}{LEVEL}{INDENT}{BEFORESKIP}{AFTERSKIP}{STYLE} % optional * [ALTHEADING]{HEADING} % Generic command to start a section. % NAME : e.g., 'subsection' % LEVEL : a number, denoting depth of section -- e.g., chapter=1, % section = 2, etc. % INDENT : Indentation of heading from left margin % BEFORESKIP : Absolute value = skip to leave above the heading. % If negative, then paragraph indent of text following % heading is suppressed. % AFTERSKIP : if positive, then skip to leave below heading, else % negative of skip to leave to right of run-in heading. % STYLE : commands to set style You see that reversing the skip given as AFTERSKIP will give you the effect you are after. Dig around in the style files a bit. >I'm hoping that the answers to both questions are trivial. 'Fraid not. >Thanks in advance for helping me. You're welcome. >Dave McClurkin Victor.
steve@Advansoft.COM (Steve Savitzky) (12/07/90)
In article <90Dec5.204808est.6898@neat.cs.toronto.edu> djmcclur@cs.toronto.edu ("David J. McClurkin") writes: 1) I need to create a macro that will display text as follows: |<----- preceeding text goes from here to here -------------->| Both of these boxes contain The right boundary flush left text. of this box (i.e. the right The left margin of this end of the longest line) box is aligned with is aligned with the the normal left normal right margin. margin The problem seems to be that one cannot create a vbox or parbox whose width is simply that of the longest line inside (its "natural" width). If you're willing to mark the line breaks yourself (as you seem willing to do), the way to do this is to set each of the boxes as a table. I frequently resort to this when setting poetry, where you want to center a box-full of left-justified lines. -- \ --Steve Savitzky-- \ ADVANsoft Research Corp \ REAL hackers use an AXE! \ \ steve@advansoft.COM \ 4301 Great America Pkwy \ #include<disclaimer.h> \ \ arc!steve@apple.COM \ Santa Clara, CA 95954 \ 408-727-3357 \ \__ steve@arc.UUCP _________________________________________________________