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Article #3999Re: troff floating display blows away centering of caption
From: Pat Sullivan
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1987 11:58
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1987 11:58
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In article <425@methods.UUCP> owen@methods.UUCP (Owen Plowman Mr. Tech.) writes:
>pair. All is okay so far. The kicker is that, if I have some "pic"
>specifications in my figure, I have to use ".DF CB" in order to get a
>result that is centered on the page. But, this blows the centering of
>the caption all over the place. Usually, the left part of the caption
>is aligned with the leftmost item of the picture.
I had the same problem here ... I even went so far as trying to hack up
the macros, still with unsatisfactory results. I ended up putting
everything back like it was and putting the caption inside an invisible
box in the pic. This worked okay, but seems like a terrible kludge.
If anybody has a better idea, please post - thanks!!
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!ut-sally!im4u!rutgers!mtune!akgua!sortac!pls From: pls@sortac.UUCP (Pat Sullivan) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: troff floating display blows away centering of caption Message-ID: <191@sortac.UUCP> Date: Fri, 4-Sep-87 07:58:35 EDT Article-I.D.: sortac.191 Posted: Fri Sep 4 07:58:35 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 5-Sep-87 18:11:26 EDT References: <425@methods.UUCP> Reply-To: pls@sortac.UUCP (Pat Sullivan) Distribution: na Organization: AT&T Southern Region, Atlanta Lines: 16