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From: bts@unx.sas.com (Brian T. Schellenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: LaTeX: figure placement and centering
Keywords: LaTeX, report, figure, centering, center, samepage
Message-ID: <1990Nov06.210152.21068@unx.sas.com>
Date: 6 Nov 90 21:01:52 GMT
References: <457@scubed.SCUBED.COM>
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.
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In article <457@scubed.SCUBED.COM> rankin@scubed.scubed.com (Tom Rankin) writes:
|Here are my problems:
|
|  1. Location of figures.
|  
|     I'm attempting to specify that I would like my figures to appear
|     "here", as in *right* *here*!, using the following construct:
|
|       \begin{figure}[h]
|	 [...contents of figure...] \end{figure}
|
|     The figures are consistently coming up at the *end* of my
|     document, not in-line as desired (and as advertised by the "here"
|     location specifier).  Very frustrating.  How do I have to hold my
|     mouth to get this to work?

This will happen if there is not, in fact, room on the current page to put
the figure right there.  Thus, a "here" \figure is not the same as one that
floats along with your text.  If you want it to float, you are better off
just putting in in-line and defining your own environment to bump up the
numbering.

|  2. Centering the tabbing environment within a figure.
|
|     I'm trying to center a \tabbing environment using either of the
|     following constructs:
|
|       \begin{figure}[h] 
|       \centering 
|       \begin{tabbing}
|	 [...tabbing stuff...] 
|       \begin{tabbing} 
|       \end{figure}
|
|	 OR
|
|       \begin{figure}[h] 
|       \begin{center} 
|       \begin{tabbing}
|	 [...tabbing stuff...] 
|       \end{tabbing} 
|       \end{center} 
|       \end{figure}
|
|     The result is the same in both cases, the material withing the tabbing
|     environment ends up left justified.  

Sorry, but centering doesn't center tabbed lines; if it did, it would end
up (by the nature of things) centering each line, which would be *really*
silly.  The best you can do is to the put the tabbing environment in a
\parbox or \minipage, experimenting 'til you get the width right.  Then
*that* will center.

|  3. Getting \samepage to work as advertised.
|
|     I've tried on numerous occasions to creat sections of text that are
|     delimited on the top and the bottom by \rule lines (used for
|     in-line EXAMPLES).  I'd like to get the entire example to appear on a
|     single page without stranding part of the example (usually a single
|     rule line) on a separate page.  My attempt to get this to happen looks
|     like this:
|
|     {\samepage
|     \noindent
|     \rule{127mm}{.1mm}
|     \vspace{-2mm}\\
|     {\large \bf EXAMPLE:} Example Title \\
|       [...text of example]
|     \noindent
|     \rule{127mm}{.1mm}
|     }

\samepage is weird and, for my purposes pretty thouroughly worthless.  Try
putting this stuff in a \minipage or \parbox instead, and it *has* to stick
together.
-- 
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