dhosek@sif.claremont.edu (Hosek, Donald A.) (06/28/90)
In article <1990Jun26.160626.10692@cbnews.att.com>, elk@cbnews.att.com (Edwin L. King) writes... > I have a post script fiel that I want to include as a figure. > I know to use \special{....}. My problem is setting up > the figure to reserve the space for it and to give me the > proper caption for the figure. Preferably, it would > also auto-number the figure. If it doesn't do that natively, > I can number it by hand, but I think it does that. Here's how I suggest handling inserted graphics: % In the preamble, I define an environment which defines whether illustrations % are to be placed flushleft, flushright, or centered \newenvironment{aroundpic}{\begin{center}}{\end{center}} % Then a typical graphic insertion will look like the following. LaTeX will % handle adding figure 1 to the beginning of the caption and placing the figure % on the page. \begin{figure} \begin{aroundpic} \setlength{\unitlength}{1in} % Or whatever your favorite dimension is. \begin{picture}(3,2) % The size of the inserted graphic \put(0,0){\special{<command to insert graphic here>}} \end{picture} \end{aroundpic} \caption{Here is where the auto-numbered caption goes. If one has a fairly long caption, a short form should be given in the optional argument even if there is no list of figures since the optional argument will be written to a file in any event.} \end{figure} --- Don Hosek TeX, LaTeX, and Metafont Consulting and dhosek@ymir.claremont.edu production work. Free Estimates. dhosek@ymir.bitnet uunet!jarthur!ymir Phone: 714-625-0147