I am learning LaTeX right now, and I can see where the use of
miniboxes (as Herbert explained in the previous thread) is very
useful for giving a precise postion to an element on a page.
However, I have also discovered that if you use miniboxes, your
change the way footnotes and endnotes work. Specifically, you
have to set the footnotes manually, and then change the
numbering manually. If you were writing a long work (a
dissertation, book, or whatever) it seems like this would be a
major drawback.
I can imagine that you use minipages to position a table or some
text or whatever, and that you need to use a footnote to cite
material within the minipage. This might create a headache.
Paul
On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 07:20:13AM +0100, Herbert Voss wrote:
>
> Peter Clark wrote:
>
> > Except that centers the whole box in the center of the page. Is there
> > anyone to keep the box left- or right- aligned on the page, but also have
> >the lines centered over the box?
>
>
> sure
>
> \newlength{\myLength}
> \setlength{\myLength}{5cm}
> \begin{minipage}{1.1\myLength}
> \begin{center}\rule [1mm]{4.5cm}{.2mm}\\
> \fbox{\parbox{\myLength}{%
> Just some filler text to keep things interesting%
> }
> }
> \\\rule [-1.2mm]{4.5cm}{.2mm}\end{center}
> \end{minipage}
>
>
> Herbert
>
>
>
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