| 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 |
I like to put a piece of art on the first page of a chapter,
for both conceptual and "hand-holding" purposes. Time and
again, I start with what I think is a reasonable figure size, and
the picture starts the second page, and I start working
down from there in increments of 2 picas. The figure sticks to the
second page like glue, and then, behold, the figure and
about two paragraphs of following text finally get shunted to the
first page.
Has anybody else experienced this? It completely baffles me...
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| 873.1 | GNUVAX::LIBRARIAN | Doing what I can't to learn how to | Tue Sep 08 1987 10:50 | 16 | |
> I start with what I think is a reasonable figure size, and the
> picture starts the second page, and I start working down from there in
> increments of 2 picas.
What's reasonable for you may not be so for Document! It sounds like
you're asking Document to leave a hole for a figure that Document feels
is too big for the first page. When you ask for a hole (figurespace)
that Document feels is small enough to fit it puts it there.
Lance
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| 873.2 | Eh? | ALIEN::BELMAN | Thu Sep 10 1987 17:08 | 8 | |
I am bemused -- you seem to be telling me that DOCUMENT has feelings
about the right size for a figure on the first page of a chapter.
I had assumed it was, at my behest, checking to see if there was
room on the first page for the picture. I was reporting what
seemed to be a flaw in its calculations in this regard.
Is, instead, DOCUMENT making some sort of aesthetic judgement
on picture size for introductory pages?
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| 873.3 | Go by what I mean... :^) | GNUVAX::LIBRARIAN | just guessing | Fri Sep 11 1987 10:12 | 12 |
Sorry if I wanen't clear, I meant to say what you just did - DOCUMENT
checks to see if there is room for a figure on a page.
As for the error in calculation, how was this figure produced? Perhaps
it has whitespace at the top or bottom that makes it bigger than
it looks (this often happens with SIGHT). This would show up as
a large number of hyphens at the top or bottom of the sixel file.
Lance
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