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Conference vaxuum::document_ft

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

672.0. "<FIGURE_SPACE> fails in a REPORT.TWOCOL document" by CASEE::CLARK (Ward Clark) Wed Jul 15 1987 18:47

    I'm trying to reserve space in a REPORT.TWOCOL document for a figure
    using the following: 

	<FIGURE>(Three-Level Architecture\three_level_picture)
	<FIGURE_ATTRIBUTES>(FLOAT\WIDE)
        <FIGURE_SPACE>(24\A pretty picture will be included here as soon as
	    we [the writers] learn how to merge an external diagram into a
            DOCUMENT report. The diagram will probably be created using the
            SIGHT editor.) 
	<ENDFIGURE>

    The result is a two-column wide figure about 3/4" high (instead of 4")
    with essentially no white-space between the figure and the text (above
    and below).

    When I format the document using the REPORT doctype, the figure space
    looks fine.

    -- Ward

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
672.1	<FIGURE_SPACE>(FULL_PAGE\...) is also broken	CRAYON::GENT	Party gone out of bounds -- B52's	`Thu Jul 16 1987 10:32`	16
	While we're on the topic of <FIGURE_SPACE>, it seems that <FIGURE_SPACE>(FULL_PAGE\text) does not work correctly (at least in the SOFTWARE.HANDBOOK doctype). What seems to happen is that DOCUMENT puts the explanatory text at the bottom of the page. Since the text is centered vertically within the figure, this makes the figure twice the length of the page and forces the bottom rule way off the page generating the device error: %DVC-W-OFFPAGE, cannot set text outside page boundaries The rule should be at the bottom of the page and the text should be centered vertically between the rules. --Andrew
672.2	need more context info	CLOSET::ANKLAM		`Sun Jul 19 1987 14:42`	8
	I can't duplicate the problems in either .0 or .1 without more information. 'Vanilla' files with the coding shown come out just fine. patti
672.3	Figure FLOAT doesn't work with REPORT.TWOCOL	CASEE::CLARK	Ward Clark	`Wed Jul 22 1987 09:24`	122
	.2> 'Vanilla' files with the coding shown come out just fine. When I tried to create a simple example of the problem that I described in .0, it worked fine. A little experimenting showed that the <FIGURE> block worked as documented when there was room for the figure at the place it appeared. However, when a figure with the FLOAT attribute is specified at a point in a document where it actually has to float (near the bottom of a page), the formatting error occurs. While I was experimenting, I noticed the following message in the batch log file: %TEX-I-INFO, Figure is too large for a single page. - on page [1] After the form-feed is a boring source file that demonstrates the problem with REPORT.TWOCOL formatting. -- Ward <DOCTYPE>(report.twocol) <HEAD1>(This is a Heading) <P> Word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word. <P> Word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word. <P> Word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word. <P> Word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word. <HEAD1>(This is a Heading) <P> Word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word. <P> Word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word. <P> Word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word. <P> Word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word. <FIGURE>(Three-Level MEMEX Architecture\three_level_picture) <FIGURE_ATTRIBUTES>(FLOAT\WIDE) <FIGURE_SPACE>(24\A pretty picture will be included here as soon as we [the writers] learn how to merge an external diagram into a DOCUMENT report. The diagram will probably be created using the SIGHT editor.) <ENDFIGURE> <HEAD1>(This is a Heading) <P> Word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word. <P> Word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word. <P> Word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word. <P> Word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word.