On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 01:35:49PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote:
> On Fri, 18 May 2001, Kathryn Andersen wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 06:15:24AM +0200, Herbert Voss wrote:
> > > Kathryn Andersen wrote:
> [...]
> > No, I'm afraid I wasn't clear -- the title of the item (in this case, a
> > story) is *just* the graphic -- I do the title in a fancy font with
> > maybe some effects, to suit the tone of the particular story.
> >
> > So it looks like my original solution will have to be it.
> 
> You maybe be able to insert some TeX just before the figure in the same
> section(?) paragraph as: [the short title]
> The stuff inside the [] should then be used by LaTeX to build the table of
> contents.

Already tried that, didn't work.

> Failing this you can use something like:
>       \addtocontents{}{}
> 
> I'm not sure of the format for that command but I'm sure Herbert has some
> entries on that at his help pages.

Thanks!  I've now looked, I can't seem to make it work, but at least I
have something to look for now.
 
> multicol offers some options for setting separations between columns
> (gutter width or something like that -- there are some docs that show some
> of this in the Extended manual)

Agh!  Just shows I should have RTM even further than I got.  Thanks, I
now have solved my columnsep problem!
 
> Allan. (ARRae)
> Who lives in Queensland where it's beautiful one day and perfect the next.

Kathryn Andersen
(who used to live in Queensland, where it is Too Hot)
(of course, it gets Too Hot in Melbourne too, but a different kind of Hot)
(and it certainly isn't hot at the moment...)
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