| Title: | DOCUMENT T1.0 |
| Notice: | **New notesfile (DOCUMENT.NOTE) now available (see note 897)** |
| Moderator: | CLOSET::ADLER |
| Created: | Mon Feb 09 1987 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Oct 31 1991 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 897 |
| Total number of notes: | 4397 |
When using the ARTICLE document and inserting a wide figure the output
isn't what is expected. Remember you get two column output using ARTICLE.
Example follows:
This is column one wide figure! The text
with the text being is continued at this
placed as you'd expect. point in the output
Now let's insert a and not where expected.
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| This is the wide figure inserted... |
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I would have expected
the output to continue
in the first column
under the inserted
figure and not the
second column above
the figure.
Reading technical documents I find the continuation of the text is placed in
column one under the inserted figure. When column one is filled the text is
then placed at the top of column two above the inserted figure (and below
again in column two if necessary).
-john lewis
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 28.1 | documented behavior | CLOSET::ANKLAM | Tue Mar 03 1987 10:30 | 10 | |
Please see the SDML User's Guide, Part II, page 2-7. The attribute
WIDE, in <table_attributes> or <FIGURE_ATTRIBUTES>, in the ARTICLE
doctype, causes the table or figure to be set using the full page
width. It works by writing out all text accumulated so far in two
columns, doing the table/figure, and restoring 2-column output.
patti anklam
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| 28.2 | Will this always be so? | ENUF::LEWIS | Fri Mar 06 1987 11:43 | 14 | |
The software certainly does behave as documented but that's not
the real issue. In many cases it is desireable and/or required
to insert a wide image in a two column document. With the current
behavior of the software this is not possible. The same thing happens
when you try to reserve figure space (in an attempt to cut and paste
an image into the final document at a later time).
Will this remain the behavior of this software? If so, there will
be instances where DOCUMENT will not be useful. With the advent
of desktop publishing software and various graphics tools for producing
images, this would certainly be a reason not to select DOCUMENT
in ths case.
john
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| 28.3 | for the time being | CLOSET::ANKLAM | Fri Mar 06 1987 12:27 | 7 | |
There will always be reasons to select a desktop publishing system
instead of DOCUMENT. The ARTICLE doctype is there for convenience
for producing drafts and, in cases where the text is not too complex,
to submit final form.
patti
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