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From: sommer@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU
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Subject: Q': epsf.sty, floats, footnote and cite
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Date: 18 Dec 90 06:39:24 GMT
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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.