Re: Another newbie

On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Laurent Jacques wrote:

> On Monday 05 January 2004 22:34, James Frye wrote:
> | But I don't understand this one.  These are vector images now, not
> | bitmaps.  They're ink on paper, so there is no background color - or
> | rather, the "background color" would be whatever the color was of the
> | paper in the printer, if I was actually printing hard copies.  What I need
> | is something that would clear the box that the includegraphics command
> | makes for the image, then put the graphic on top of it.
> 
> If I remember correctly, you have to change some lines by editing manually the 
> eps file. In fact, there is somewhere an instruction which says "white" is 
> the background to delete.
.., 
> Let me know if it works (cause I never tried this solution)
 
Laurent,

Thanks for the suggestion.  I didn't try it, because the suggestion about
using a colorbox does the trick, and much easier.  I can just incorportate
it into a macro.

Also, I figured out what was causing the problem with having my text
appear below the graphic instead of to the right.  It's another Latex-ism
- I'll refrain, with great difficulty, from expressing my opinion more
forcefully :-)  I've been a programmer for many years, and have gotten
into the habit of aligning braces and inserting blank lines for
readability.  So naturally I wrote something like

\begin {minipage}{0.3\textwidth}
  \includegraphics...
\end {minipage}

\begin {minipage}{0.7\textwidth}
  put the text here
\end {minipage}

Latex, though, doesn't like the blank line between the two minipages.  Put
a % sign in there, and it works fine.  Sheesh...

Anyway, it still beats the heck out of trying to work with Powerpoint.

Thanks, everyone,
James





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