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From: vanwyk@longfellow.ecn.purdue.edu (Kenric D VanWyk)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Problems with a style file
Message-ID: <1991Apr3.225626.3648@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 3 Apr 91 22:56:26 GMT
Article-I.D.: noose.1991Apr3.225626.3648
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I aquired a style file called hangcaption.sty.  I saved this style
file to hangcaption.sty.  I then tried to sample this style file
with the enclosed latex file.  The file would not latex and
produced the .log file which is at the end of this message.  I am
not fluent enough yet in tex to figure out what is wrong.  Any help
would be appreciated.  Please e-mail responses to
vanwyk@ecn.purdue.edu


Thanks,
Kenric




% Save file as: HANGCAPTION.STY        Source: FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET
%Figure 1.1: This is the debugged version of a modified caption macro
%            to produce captions with hanging indentation (like this).
%            If the caption is less than a full line, it will be
%            centered.  \isucaption is used in the same way as \caption
%            (the name may be changed).
%            The variable \captionwidth may be set to match the width
%            of a \tabular* environment.  If set inside a table or
%            figure environment, it will affect only that environment.
 
\def\isucaption{\refstepcounter\@captype
  \@dblarg{\@isucaption\@captype}}

\newlength\captionwidth \captionwidth=\hsize
\long\def\@isucaption#1[#2]#3{
 \baselineskip 14.5 pt
  \addcontentsline {\csname ext@#1\endcsname}{#1}
  {\protect\numberline{\csname fnum@#1\endcsname}{\ignorespaces #2}}
     \par
  \begingroup
    \@parboxrestore
    \setbox\@tempboxa\hbox{\csname fnum@#1\endcsname #3}
    \ifdim \wd\@tempboxa >\captionwidth
      \begingroup
       \setbox\@tempboxa\hbox{\csname fnum@#1\endcsname^^}
       \advance \captionwidth by -\wd\@tempboxa
        \@makecaption{\csname fnum@#1\endcsname}
        {\ignorespaces{\protect\parbox[t]{\captionwidth}{#3}}}%
      \endgroup
     \else
        \begingroup
           \@makecaption{\csname fnum@#1\endcsname}
           {\ignorespaces #3}
        \endgroup
     \fi
    \par\vspace{1.7ex}
  \endgroup}




\documentstyle [hangcaption]{article}
\begin{document}
Here is room for a table and its caption.
\begin{table}[htb]
\vskip 4 in
\isucaption{The hangcaption header claims to take a regular caption
such as this one and indent it so that all text is in a column,
making the caption easier to read}
\end{table}
\end{document}





This is TeX, C Version 2.95 (preloaded format=lplain 89.10.25)  3 APR 1991 17:20
**&lplain m
(m.tex
LaTeX Version 2.09 <4 Aug 1988>
(/usr/unsup/lib/tex/inputs/article.sty
Document Style `article' <16 Mar 88>.
(/usr/unsup/lib/tex/inputs/art10.sty)
\c@part=\count78
\c@section=\count79
\c@subsection=\count80
\c@subsubsection=\count81
\c@paragraph=\count82
\c@subparagraph=\count83
\c@figure=\count84
\c@table=\count85
)
(/home/author/vanwyk/tex/inputs/hangcaption.sty
\captionwidth=\skip41
)
Runaway definition?
#1[#2]#3-> \baselineskip 14.5 pt \addcontentsline {\csname ext@#1\endcsname \ET
C.
! File ended while scanning definition of \@isucaption.
<inserted text> 
                }
<to be read again> 
                   \relax 
\@documentstyle ...let \@elt \input \@optionfiles 
                                                  \let \@elt \relax \makeato...
l.1 \documentstyle [hangcaption]{article}
                                         
? X
 
Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:
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 14 hyphenation exceptions out of 607
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