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From: eijkhout@s41.csrd.uiuc.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
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Subject: Re: Correct format for psfig?
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Date: 18 Jan 91 16:51:06 GMT
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rig@eng.umd.edu (Ronald Greenberg) writes:

>In article <00942389.81613420@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU> sommer@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU writes:

>>(2) use TeX \centerline{\psfig{ ... } } instead of LaTeX \begin{center}

>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.

The LaTeX \begin{center} environment is for centering paragraphs,
\psfig generates a box, which is not sufficient to start a paragraph,
therefore it is not centered. The author of psfig was aware of this
problem, but his repair (last time I looked at the macros)
was wrong. Basically you have to start a paragraph, which is done
by \mbox, because it contains \leavevmode.
You could also write \begin{center} \ \psfig{...
or \begin{center} \leavevmode\psfig{...

Victor.