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Article #3928Re: Including Illustration in TeX
From: lamy
Date: Sun, 09 Aug 1987 01:07
Date: Sun, 09 Aug 1987 01:07
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The question is how to put an illustration alongside text. Using dvi2ps,
you would proceed as follows.
a) Use a TeX parshape or fiddle with the margins to create the notch.
See \narrower in the TeX book, or use a "list" environment in LaTeX.
b) Use \special at the very beginning of the paragraph, specifying vertical
and horizontal offsets to position the bitmap properly. Normally
I presume that the horizontal offset would be the width of the column
plus a little.
dvi2ps overlays the illustration on top of your TeX output. In effect
the \special inclusion does not take any room, as far as TeX is concerned.
Positioning the \special at the beginning of a paragraph makes life a
little easier, as otherwise you have to guess where TeX breaks lines and
so on.
Jean-Francois Lamy lamy@ai.toronto.edu (CSnet,UUCP,Bitnet)
AI Group, Dept of Computer Science lamy@ai.toronto.cdn (EAN X.400)
University of Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4 {seismo,watmath}!ai.toronto.edu!lamy
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