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From: rig@eng.umd.edu (Ronald Greenberg)
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Subject: Re: Correct format for psfig?
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Date: 18 Jan 91 00:25:26 GMT
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In article <00942389.81613420@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU> sommer@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU writes:
>>What is the correct format to use for \psfig when trying to scale by
>>figure height?
>
>First, I thank everyone for helping with my \psfig problem, of which, it
>turns out, there were actually two.
>
>(1) spaces are not allowed in the argument of \psfig{...}
>(2) use TeX \centerline{\psfig{ ... } } instead of LaTeX \begin{center}
>
>(Even though \begin{center} \psfig{p1.ps} \end{center} WORKS
>\begin{center} must be taking offense in the height part of \psfig.)
>
>\psfig{p1.ps, height=2in} FAILS
>\begin{center} \psfig{p1.ps,height=2in} \end{center} FAILS
>\centerline{\psfig{p1.ps,height=2in}} WORKS


I believe I once had this centering problem without using "height"
(but there were "bbllx", "bblly", ...).  The fix I used was
  \centering
  \mbox{\psfig{figure=foo,bbllx=...}}

The use of \centering versus the environment shouldn't be of relevance
to the issue under discussion, but the idea of putting the thing in an
\mbox may be a more general way to make things work when you use LaTeX
macros around it.
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Ron Greenberg		rig@umiacs.umd.edu