HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: jafortun@vela.acs.oakland.edu (James Fortune)
Subject: LaTeX question regarding blanking out footnote symbol
Keywords: footnotetext, fnsymbol, thanksu
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 01:08:50 GMT

Here is what I need:

I am using the LaTeX command \footnotetext to keep the footnote mark
from being generated in the text and to keep the footnote counter from
being incremented.  When I use this option I don't want a number to
appear in the footnote area either.  The list of nine footnote symbols
available using the \fnsymbol command do not include blank.  I wrote
a tiny style file that tried to change the \@fnsymbol def (from latex.tex)
to a blank but that didn't work.  I also tried to pull a macro called
\thanksu out from another style file and modify it but it did not put
the text at the start of the non-raised portion of the footnote area.
Any ideas?

Thanks,
JAF
-- 
James Fortune                  - There are many sides to every question
Oakland University             - until you know the truth.  Then there's
jafortun@vela.acs.oakland.edu  - only one.  --  C. S. Lewis
Disclaimer: Not O.U. opinions  -
From: isozaki@ntt-20.ntt.jp (Hideki ISOZAKI)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: picture of a coil?
Date: 28 Jul 92 09:26:00 GMT
Organization: NTT Basic Research Laboratories


llew@wpi.WPI.EDU (Lew Yan Voon) writes
>does anyone know how to draw a coil using latex?

The following METAFONT code let
you draw horizontally laid coils.
Each character corresponds to one turn or an end of a coil.
Please ask someone near you about how to install/use it.

Hideki Isozaki,       NTT Basic Research Labs.

-------------------- spring.mf --------------------
mode_setup;

numeric code; numeric pitch;

for code:=0 upto 6:

pitch:=code*1pt#+4pt#;

beginchar(4code,pitch,5pt#,5pt#);
path p;
p=(0,-d){right}..(.8w,.3h){up}..(.5w,h){left}..(.2w,.3h){down}..{right}(w,-d);
pickup pencircle scaled 0.4pt;
draw p; 
pickup pencircle scaled 2.5pt;
undraw subpath(3.2,3.8) of p;
pickup pencircle scaled 0.4pt;
draw subpath(3,4) of p;
endchar;

beginchar(4code+1,pitch,5pt#,5pt#);
path p;
p=(0,-d){right}..(.8w,.3h){up}..(.5w,h){left}..(.2w,.3h){down}..{right}(w,-d);
pickup pencircle scaled 0.4pt;
draw p; 
pickup pencircle scaled 2.5pt;
undraw subpath(0.2,0.8) of p;
pickup pencircle scaled 0.4pt;
draw subpath(0,1) of p;
endchar;

beginchar(4code+2,pitch,5pt#,5pt#);
pickup pencircle scaled 0.4pt;
draw (w,-d){left}..(.3w,0)---(0,0);
endchar;

beginchar(4code+3,pitch,5pt#,5pt#);
pickup pencircle scaled 0.4pt;
draw (0,-d){right}..(.7w,0)---(w,0);
endchar;

endfor;

end
From: millerl@wharton.upenn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Date: 17 Jul 92 19:26 MDT
Subject: Re: Help w/ emTeX
Nf-ID: #R:9207161625.AA42074@aix3.ema.com:-551817314:1992Jul17.102600.1@wharton.upenn:753830034:001:445
Nf-From: wharton.upenn.edu!millerl    Jul 17 19:26:00 1992


In article <ffwmb3a7@csv.warwick.ac.uk>, cudat@warwick.ac.uk (J M Hicks) writes:
> That's odd: I don't keep copies of the CONFIG.PS and PSFONTS.MAP files
> in the same directory as my .TEX files and DVIPS works for me.

Which directory do you keep them in?

-- 
whoah,
+++++++++++++++++++++++23
Loren Miller                           internet: MILLERL@wharton.upenn.edu
The more corrupt the government, the greater the number of laws -- Tacitus
From: cabr07@ccsun.strath.ac.uk ("G.N.Sinclair")
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Bold Math Greek
Summary: Availability of bold greek letters
Date: 29 Jul 92 17:40:02 GMT
Organization: Strathclyde University Physics


Is there any way of including bold greek characters within the math
environment of LaTeX without having to built a new font?

Gordon.
From: emma@Csli.Stanford.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Date: 17 Jul 92 23:46 MDT
Subject: Re: Margin settings: ... (also manu
Nf-ID: #N:1992Jul17.194646.26393@csli.stan:-1642410404:001:2297
Nf-From: csli.stanford.edu!emma    Jul 17 23:46:00 1992


In <BrI55D.IKy@news.cso.uiuc.edu> cameron@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Cameron Smith) writes:

>First of all, why should \evensidemargin be the same as \oddsidemargin
>in a non-twoside document?  I was under the impression that if the
>twoside option wasn't used, the \evensidemargin parameter was never
>consulted (at least, not in the standard LaTeX code -- home-grown
>styles may do other things).

>Also, US letter paper is 8.5in wide, not 8in, so the righthand margin
>would be more like ~1.8in (which makes sense, since it's about the
>same as the 1.9in margin on the left).

Many thanks for pointing out the errors; you are indeed correct.  I've
now corrected my local information.  Both answers are a bit long for a
FAQ.  Perhaps a better FAQ and answer would be a list and description
of what manuals and guides exist about LaTeX and TeX and where to get
them.  Off the top of my head (and checking the ymir archives), I can
think of  

LaTeX: User's Guide and Reference Manual by Leslie Lamport
The TeXbook by Donald Knuth (and pointing out that this is useful even
                             for people who only LaTeX)
A Gentle Introduction to TeX by Michael Doob
Using TeX on the VAX to Typeset Documents: A Primer by Joe St Sauver
Essential Latex by Jon Warbrick

And from my local bookstore (they don't necessarily have the following
but they know about them)

Abrahams, TEX FOR THE IMPATIENT. Addison Wesley Pub Co Inc., 1990.
Bechtolsheim, TEX IN PRACTICE. Springer Verlag New York, Inc., 1991.
Borde, TEX BY EXAMPLE. Academic Press Order Fulfillment, 1992.
Buerger, LATEX. Mcgraw Hill Book Company, 1989.
Diller, LATEX LINE BY LINE TIPS AND TECHNIQUES FOR DOCUMENT PROCESSING.
  Wiley, John & Sons, Inc., 1992.
Eijkhout, TEX BY TOPIC. Addison Wesley Pub Co Inc., 1992.
Goos, 236 TEX FOR SCIENTIFIC DOCUMENTATION. Springer Verlag New York,
	Inc.,1986. 
Hahn, LATEX FOR EVERYONE. Personal Tex, 1992.
Seroul, BEGINNER'S BOOK OF TEX. Springer Verlag New York, Inc., 1991.
Snow, TEX FOR THE BEGINNER. Addison Wesley Pub Co Inc., 1991.
Spivak, JOY OF TEX. Addison Wesley Pub Co Inc., 1987.


I have only used the TeX book and the LaTeX manual so I can't comment
on the others and whether they are useful.

Emma Pease
emma@csli.stanford.edu

>--Cameron Smith
>  cameron@symcom.math.uiuc.edu
From: radha@bnr.ca (Radha Valiveti)
Subject: Citations in superscript
Reply-To: radha@bnr.ca (Radha Valiveti)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 15:25:12 GMT

A little while ago, someone posted an article which showed how to
get the citations (in the article style) as superscript numerals, 
as opposed to [12] etc. I had saved that article but accidentally 
deleted it. Would anyone having it please send it to me? I have
looked at the TeX index and could not find anything close to it.

thanks,
radha



Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: vrr@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (veenu.r.rashid)
Subject: Justifying lines in LaTeX
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 04:31:58 GMT


Can anyone tell me how to break a line in LaTeX and still
have it justified?  The line looks as follows:

(when printed from dvi-file)

originally:

The residuals give rise to est-   <- bad line break
imates of ...


after inserting linebreak (\\):

The residuals give rise to	  <- ragged right margin
estimates of ...


I am using SliTeX macro package with LaTeX, so I have a
lot of these!  Is there a way to write a macro to justify
the right edge, perhaps by equally inserting \vspace between
the words, to justify the lines?

Please help!

Email to vrr@cbnewsj.att.com.


Thanks very much,
Veenu


Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: jesse@cs.UAlberta.CA (Jesse Lee)
Subject: Need help with verbatim.sty
Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 23:57:55 GMT

I would like to use the verbatim.sty to input a file and typeset the file
in 8 or 9 points cmtt. But I do not know how to modify the \verbatim@font
and the \verbatiminput macros to define my own macros. Would someone
help me with that?

Thanks in advance.

Jesse Lee
jesse@cs.ualberta.ca
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: LaTeX \newenvironment and \verbatim
From: gunars@spss.com (Gunars V Lucans)
Date: 29 Jul 92 15:15:00 GMT
Organization: SPSS Inc.

Schoepf@sc.ZIB-Berlin.de (Rainer Schoepf) writes:

>In article <QePh2i600WB6MJKENo@andrew.cmu.edu> me12+@andrew.cmu.edu (Marc R. Ewing) writes:

>   Is it possible to do something like:

>   \newenvironment{zcode}{\begin{quote}\begin{verbatim}}%
>			 {\end{verbatim}\end{quote}}

>   It seems that, once verbatim is turned on, it never sees the \end{zcode}

>True. A while ago, I wrote a verbatim style file to get around some of
>the problems with verbatim. This is now distributed with AMSLaTeX to
>provide the comment environment. 


I couldn't get this to work with your verbatim.sty (v1.4i 92/01/20)
that I found on rusinfo.  Is the version in AMSLaTeX different or am I
doing something wrong?  The input I used is:

     \documentstyle[verbatim]{article}
     \newenvironment{zcode}{\begin{quote}\begin{verbatim}}%
                           {\end{verbatim}\end{quote}}
     \begin{document}
     \begin{zcode}
     Quoted verbatim text.
     \end{zcode}
     \end{document}

The results with emTeX 3.0 and LaTeX 3/25/92 are:

     Runaway argument?
     ! File ended while scanning use of \next.
     <inserted text> 
		     \par 
     <*> &lplain test
--
Gunars V. Lucans  --  gunars@spss.com  --  SPSS Inc, Chicago, USA
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: petrovic@watson.ibm.com (Mark Petrovic)
Subject: Re: Suitability of TeX/LaTex for producing camera-ready manuscripts
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 17:25:49 GMT
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Keywords: camera-ready, encapsulated Postscript

Thank you to all who weighed in while offering their view on how to
embed figures into camera-ready output under TeX.  General consensus seems
to be that encapsulated Postscript is a viable tool.

Mark Petrovic
IBM Research
Yorktown Heights, NY
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: nirad@newdelphi.ceu.uq.oz.au (Nirad Sharma)
Subject: How to get semijoin symbols etc.
Organization: Continuing Education Unit, The University of Queensland
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 09:46:10 GMT

How can I get the symbols for semi-joins, left outer-join, right outer-join and
both outer-join ?
--
Nirad Sharma  (nirad@ceu.uq.oz.au)			Phone : (+61 7) 365 7575
Continuing Education Unit				Fax :	(+61 7) 365 7099
The University of Queensland.  QLD  4072.  AUSTRALIA
From: kuch@reed.edu (Jerry Kuch)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Some Questions
Date: 29 Jul 92 00:23:16 GMT
Organization: A Place that Thing's TeX is Spelled Tech


Hi.  Many of these questions are probably FAQs, but if someone could email
me some quick replies, it would be greatly appreciated.

Some people in my workplace have been asking for information on how to 
deal with ".tex" files.  The workplace is strongly PC dominated, with a few
low-powered Intel based Xenix machines.

The questions:

	1) Are there any good PostScript previewers/printer dump utilities
           for MS-DOS available through shareware, preferably by FTP?

        2) What is a good PC based (shareware) TeX package?  Most of the
           commercial ones I've seen have looked pretty rough compared to
           the Radical Eye versions of the Amiga and the NeXT... nothing
           wonderful is wanted, just something adequate.

So far the best solution I've been able to suggest to the few people who need
to print TeX files (without learning about TeX itself...sigh) in a fascistly
MS Word based environment has been for me to compile their stuff at home, 
and upload it to the Xenix machines at work, for dvips'ing...

Any suggestions?

-- 
Jerry Kuch (t-gerldk@microsoft.com) | "Sic Gorgianus Allos Subjectatus Nunc."
  "I was wrong to play God.  Life is precious, not a thing to be toyed with.
   Now take out that brain and flush it down the toilet." - Montgomery Burns
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Who wants scribe2latex? (seek ftp site) 
From: Mark_James@kcbbs.gen.nz (Mark James)
Date: 31 Jul 92 00:18:40 GMT
Organization: Kappa Crucis Unix BBS, Auckland, New Zealand

  
My name (with old e-mail address) is listed in several FAQ files  
saying that I have a copy of a scribe2latex converter program.  Well,   
I do, but I can no longer distribute it by e-mail, since my new  
account (in addition to being not very reliable) requires me to pay by  
the byte.  
  
So I'd like to offer the material to any ftp site that will provide it  
a good home.  Then we can get me off the FAQs (:-).  
  
Any takers?  Reply persistently and soon, since as I say, my current  
Internet connection is spotty and perhaps temporary.  
  
--  
Mark James <tmarkj@kcbbs.gen.nz>
From: da188@city.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Diagrams in LaTeX
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 13:51:13 BST
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

I am currently using LaTeX's picture environment to draw simple diagrams
in LaTeX documents. The LaTeX book mentions somewhere about using some
special graph paper to aid in designing diagrams on paper before typing
the commands into the document. Can someone tell me how I set about creating
this special graph paper? The book mentions using \multiput somewhere...

Aj
--
.----------------------------[ The Eno ]----------------------------------.
| "The trouble with New Age       | JANET : da188@uk.ac.city              |
|  music is that there's no       |         da188@uk.ac.city.cs           |
|  evil in it."                   | I-NET : da188@city.ac.uk              |
|  - Brian Eno                    | US : da188%city.ac.uk@cunyvm.cuny.edu |
`-------------------------------------------------------------------------'
From: Eberhard Mattes <mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Auc-tex for OS/2?
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 17:58:25 +0200
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

Oh, I forgot to include the following file (cd2.cmd) in my Auc-TeX
patches:

------------------------------- cut here -------------------------------------
/* cd2.cmd */

parse arg drive':'dir junk
if drive = '' then
  parse arg dir junk
else
  drive":"
"cd" dir
------------------------------- cut here -------------------------------------

This batch file makes "cd2" -- if used instead of "cd" -- change both
the drive and the directory.

Eberhard Mattes (mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de)
From: da188@city.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Date: 18 Jul 92 06:33 MDT
Subject: page numbering
Nf-ID: #N:AA00408.9207171433.Hassocks@uk.a:-1620889345:001:151
Nf-From: city.ac.uk!da188    Jul 18 06:33:00 1992


Can someone tell me how to switch off page numbering?

Aj
p.s. Can someone email me the FAQ for this mailing list or point in the
direction of one?
--
From: "Daniel H. Luecking" <DL24794@UAFSYSB.UARK.EDU>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Chords and alignments
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 13:42:04 CDT
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

I will be going NOMAIL for a few weeks so I thought I would clear up
some backlog all in one go.

There was a post (possibly to comp.text.tex) a few weeks ago asking how to
put guitar chords above the words in a song listing. The only response I've
was a songbook.sty posted. This seemed like overkill for a simple prroblem
andm moreover, not helpful for plain TeX users. I submit the following:

\def\chord#1{\raise 10 pt\rlap{#1}}

Place it immediately before the syllable where the chord change takes
place with no space. This will mess up the even line spacing unless
\advance\baselineskip by 10pt  precedes the song. The dimension 10pt in both
settings should be adjusted for best visual effect, but probably should be
the same in both places.


Two postings in the past few months asked about alignments of the following

          ------------------------
          |          |  Entry 1  |
          |  Entry 2 +-----------+
          |          |  Entry 3  |
          ------------------------

Where Entry 2 is aligned with the rule separating Entries 1 and 3.
I sent my own humble solutions to both posters, but would now like to
recant them and state that I think the is one of the few situations I
have encountered where \valign is actually the best way to do it. I do
not have the time to debug it, but the following may work:

\valign{\hbox{\vrule height .4pt width 7 em#}&\hbox{\quad#\quad}&
 \hbox{\vrule height .4pt width7 em#}& \hbox{\quad#\quad}&
  \hbox{\vrule height .4pt width 7em#}\cr
\noalign{\vrule}
&\multispan3\vfill\hbox{\quad Entry 2\quad}\vfill&\cr
\noalign{\vrule}
&Entry 1&&Entry 3&\cr
\noalign{\vrule}}

Dan Luecking
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: zrahd01@sunap1.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (Daniel Haenle)
Subject: ps2pcx or ps2msp wantet !!!
Organization: Comp. Center (ZDV) U of Tuebingen, FRG
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 10:06:28 GMT

Dear world !

Is there a possibility to convert from Postscript to the "emTeX-Formats"
.pcx or .msp ?

Thanx ahead.

Daniel

Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: trivedi@yukawa.uchicago.edu (Anil Trivedi)
Subject: FAQ
Organization: Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 01:05:55 GMT

steeve@concour.cs.concordia.ca (HARDY j g steeve):
>> 	I just joined your group and after sifting through the three hundred
>> and some odd articles, I didn't find a FAQ anywhere. Is it either possible
>> for someone to email it to me or even better give me the location where 
>> I could possibly ftp it.

russell@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (David Russell) writes:
>I too am new to reading this news group and would like to know
>where the FAQ is.

FAQ is posted monthly to comp.text.tex and news.answers; if that does not
help you locate it, let me (trivedi@yukawa.uchicago.edu) know and I'll mail
the current edition to you.
----
From: ecsgrt@luxor.latrobe.edu.au (Geoffrey Tobin)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: metafont
Date: 24 Jul 92 05:36:48 GMT
Organization: La Trobe University

In article <1992Jul23.160126.9306@wpi.WPI.EDU>
  llew@coal.WPI.EDU (Lew Yan Voon) writes:

>anyway, so i went into the uwashington site (byron something)
>and the readme file said that the utilityfonts tar file has
>the source code for mf.

No, I think it means `the sources for the MF fonts'.

Byron does have `the unix tex sources', but the ones I found were the
old ones (TeX 3.0 and MF 2.0), dated May 1991.

The new sources (TeX 3.141 and MF 2.71) are at

    labrea.stanford.edu  pub/tex
and
    ftp.cs.umb.edu  pub/tex

Now please, someone, post to direct us to up-to-date mirrors or
shadows of these two sites, before they get overloaded with requests!

And Byron, please update!  Karl Berry's change files do NOT work with
TeX 3.0 and MF 2.0 !

Geoffrey Tobin
From: jim@n5ial.chi.il.us (Jim Graham)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Table query 
Distribution: world
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 92 20:33:56 GMT
Organization: Me? Organized? Hah! :-)

In article <1992Jul17.002313.15003@marlin.jcu.edu.au>
cpsrk@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Stuart Kemp) writes:

> Using tables in plain TeX, how can you get an entry in a column to span
> multiple rows, and be centered vertically within these rows?
> e.g. below, the --- between "Entry 1" and "Entry 2" is generated with
> \hrule, and I want things such that this \hrule lines up with the middle
> of the "ABC"
>           +-----------------------------+
>           |          | Entry 1          |
>           |  ABC     -------------------|
>           |          | Entry 2          |
>           +-----------------------------+

ok, I missed the original article, and swiped these bits from a
followup, but here goes....  :-)

I'd suggest looking into a macro package called S-Tables.tex
(stables.tex).  I believe it's on ymir, but I'm not sure --- the
author sent me the file directly.  it's a really sharp macro package
for doing tables, and is very flexible.  it does what you're looking
for very easily (and the docs include examples of a table which
does exactly that).

feel free to e-mail me if you'd like more info.
   --jim

--
Standard disclaimer....Ever since my cat learned to type, there's no telling
whose thoughts these really are....         73 DE N5IAL (/9)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
INTERNET:  jim@n5ial.chi.il.us  |  grahj@gagme.chi.il.us  |  j.graham@ieee.org
UUCP:  gagme!n5ial!jim@clout.chi.il.us
AMATEUR RADIO: n5ial@n9hsi (Chicago.IL.US.Earth)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: Schoepf@sc.ZIB-Berlin.de (Rainer Schoepf)
Subject: Re: LaTex problem: \thanks doesn't show
Reply-To: Schoepf@sc.ZIB-Berlin.de
Organization: Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum fuer Informationstechnik Berlin
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 13:21:09 GMT

In article <153btbINNslb@iraul1.ira.uka.de> s_mock@irau31.ira.uka.de (Markus Mock) writes:

   I am using LaTeX Version 2.09 <14 January 1991> together
   with TeX, C Version 3.14t3 and I tried to do the following:


   \documentstyle[12pt,titlepage]{article}

   \title{My favorite subject} 

   \author{
	   Dr. Jekyll\thanks{foo@bar}\\  something\\ 
	    \and Mr. Hyde\thanks{hal@snafu}\\ more things 
	  }

   \maketitle
   \begin{document}
   ...

Use \maketitle after \begin{document}. More recent versions of LaTeX
treat your input as an error.
--

   Rainer Schoepf
   Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum                       ,,Ich mag es nicht, wenn
    fuer Informationstechnik Berlin            sich die Dinge so frueh
   Heilbronner Strasse 10                      am Morgen schon so
   W-1000 Berlin 31                            dynamisch entwickeln!''
   Federal Republic of Germany
   <Schoepf@sc.ZIB-Berlin.de> or <Schoepf@sc.ZIB-Berlin.dbp.de>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: gene@icarus.claremont.edu (Gene C. Van Nostern)
Subject: Width of text
Reply-To: gene@icarus.claremont.edu
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 19:39:51 GMT

Is there any way to find the width of a bit of text in TeX?  I'd like
a command, say \widthof, that would work like this:

\newdimen\textwidth
\textwidth=\widthof{some text}

From then on, I could use \textwidth to be the width of the string
"some text".

Please respond by e-mail.

Thanks,
Gene.
gene@icarus.claremont.edu
From: Zdenek Wagner <WAGNER%CSEARN.BITNET@SHSU.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: moving figures
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 10:27:58 MDT
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List


Dear TeXers,
I wrote a text in LaTeX using multicol.sty v1.3a dated <90/05/20> and doc.sty
v1.7d dated <92/04/25>. However, the behaviour was the same with newdoc.sty.
The file has the following form:

\documentstyle[doc]{article}
% some preamble commands
\begin{document}
\title{title name} % and the rest
\maketitle
\begin{quote}
Short abstract
\end{quote}

\begin{multicols}{2}[\section{section name}]
Some text

\begin{figure*}[hp]
some figure definition commands
\end{figure*}

some more text
\end{multicols}

% I am still on page 1

\begin{multicols}{2}[\section{section name}]
Text of the second section
\end{multicols}

etc.

I know that the figure takes the whole page so I would expect it on page 2.
However, it is moved to the very end of the document. I tried different
positioning options after \begin{figure*} (also no options) but the result was
always the some.

Is there some way to put the figure on the page 2 without the necessity of
making the adjustment manually?

Thanks for all answers in advance.

Zdenek Wagner
<wagner@csearn.bitnet> or <wagner@csearn.cvut.cs>