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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

729.0. "V1.0 <FIGURE_ATTRIBUTES> quirk" by 3D::BOYACK (pithy...pithy...pithy) Wed Jul 29 1987 17:13

    Using version V1.0 (BL8) and the LYNX doctype, the following
    coding produces a figure space of approximately 7 picas between
    rules for the second figure.
    
    <FIGURE>(Pedestal Rear and Side Panel Removal\F6_TRP)
    <FIGURE_ATTRIBUTES>(KEEP)
    <FIGURE_SPACE>(FULL_PAGE\Same as LYNX System Manual Fig. 8-1)
    <ENDFIGURE>
    <FIGURE>(Pedestal Front Panel Removal\F6_FP)
    <FIGURE_SPACE>(FULL_PAGE\Same as LYNX System Manual Fig. 8-3)
    <ENDFIGURE>

    Adding <FIGURE_ATTRIBUTES>(KEEP) as follows, correctly produces
    two full page figure spaces on adjacent pages.
    
    <FIGURE>(Pedestal Rear and Side Panel Removal\F6_TRP)
    <FIGURE_ATTRIBUTES>(KEEP)
    <FIGURE_SPACE>(FULL_PAGE\Same as LYNX System Manual Fig. 8-1)
    <ENDFIGURE>
    <FIGURE>(Pedestal Front Panel Removal\F6_FP)
    <FIGURE_ATTRIBUTES>(KEEP)
    <FIGURE_SPACE>(FULL_PAGE\Same as LYNX System Manual Fig. 8-3)
    <ENDFIGURE>

    Seems like mighty subtle behavior.
    
    Joe
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729.1Make that V1.0 (BL9)3D::BOYACKpithy...pithy...pithyThu Jul 30 1987 09:012
    
729.2bugCLOSET::ANKLAMWed Aug 12 1987 17:387
    
    Not just subtle. Pesky. We fixed a bug with similar attributes
    between BL7 and BL8. Will have to revisit this. 
    
    Thanks for finding the workaround!
    
    patti
729.3Creeping Crud Revisited?DECWET::CUSTERWed Aug 12 1987 17:5311
    Uh oh.  This one makes me very nervous.  
    
    Is this the same bug that caused TeX's page size to get smaller and
    smaller after a figure?  If so, we'll need to watch out for it, since
    it previously produced a variety of side-effects that were
    difficult-to-diagnose (page footers creeping up and down, jobs aborting
    with undisclosed TeX errors, figures getting the squeeze,...). 
    
    Let us know what you find out.  Thanks.
    
    	-hkc
729.4No, not that!CLOSET::ANKLAMWed Aug 12 1987 18:175
    
    no, this was different. we smacked the creeping page bug; we had
    a large number of files to test that one. 
    
    patti
729.5DECWET::CUSTERThu Aug 13 1987 12:401
    Whew!   That's good news.  Thanks.  	-hkc