Re: Figure troubles

[Jeff Kingston]

Leaving the box behind is probably not that strange; Lout probably
has put some empty thing there and then moved on to look for
another page to take the rest.

My first suggestion would be to enclose the entire body of the
figure in @OneRow, like this:

    @Figure
        @Caption { ... }
    {
    @OneRow {
         ... actual figure here ...
    }
    }

This should ensure that there are no little empty bits of the figure
being put into the first space and causing Lout to think it has
achieved something there.

If that doesn't help, the next step will be to post a sample file
that produces the problem, preferably somewhat cut-down.

Jeff Kingston


On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 16:17:59 +0200 (MEST), Mark Christiaens wrote:
  > 
  > I'm using lout 3.25.  I've included a dozen figures taking up almost half
  > a page each in my document.  Each figure is surrounded by a box:
  > 
  >  @FigureFormat      { @ShadowBox { @HExpand @CC { @Body } }         }
  > 
  > This seemed to work well until now.  Lout doesn't seems to be trying to
  > put more than two figures on one page and then notices this isn't
  > possible:
  > 
  >    243,5: 0.3c object too high for -0.0c space; will try elsewhere
  >   310,11: 12.7c object too high for 3.8c space; will try elsewhere
  >   354,11: 6.4c object too high for -0.0c space; will try elsewhere
  >    364,2: 0.4c object too high for -0.0c space; will try elsewhere
  > 
  > Now the strange thing is that these figures seem to leave their box behind
  > at the point where lout tried to insert them.  Also Lout doesn't seem to
  > get that it should move these figures to a different location were they
  > might fit since the same error keeps recurring even after several runs.
  > I tried with all sort of combinations of "FullPage", "TopPage", ... but
  > things continue to go wrong (figures even get different numbers).
  > 
  > Is the above construct for "boxing" a figure incorrect?  Are there any
  > other tricks for figures anyone can give me?  Any help would be welcome.
  > 
  > Mark