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From: Jim Blandy <jimb@zwingli.cygnus.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
Cc: ac131313@cygnus.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [rfa/doco] Srink the overlay diagram
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 18:55:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <npwuy787e2.fsf@zwingli.cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3791-Tue22Jan2002111309+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il>


"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:
> Leave the text outside the @example, and instead put "@need NUMBER"
> before the @example which starts the diagram, where NUMBER is enough
> to allow for both the diagram and the text after it.  I'd use 10000
> for NUMBER, but if you can easily print that page after TeXing it,
> simply measure how many inches of vertical space does the diagram and
> the text take, and multiply that by 1000.

As to the original "what's that doing there?" question: It's a
caption.  Diagrams often have explanatory text, outside of the main
flow of text.

As to the formatting: anything that keeps that text immediately after
the diagram is fine.


  reply	other threads:[~2002-01-25  2:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-01-20 21:11 Andrew Cagney
2002-01-21  1:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-01-21 11:46   ` Andrew Cagney
2002-01-22  1:13     ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-01-24 18:55       ` Jim Blandy [this message]
2002-01-29  7:58         ` Andrew Cagney
2002-01-29 13:58           ` Andrew Cagney
2002-02-07 15:51             ` Andrew Cagney
2002-01-24 18:54 ` Jim Blandy

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