On Sat, 7 Jan 2006, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
Have you looked at \multiput? http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/teTeX/latex/latex2e-html/ltx-269.html
Kevin, I will take a look at it.
... but perhaps since you are working on something specialized you should purchase one or two LaTeX reference books?
Er, did you not see my references to the multido pdf, The LaTex Companion, 2nd Ed., Guide to LaTeX 4th Ed., and The LaTeX Graphics Companion that I wrote I had used before asking for help?
Perhaps it's the wrong tool for the job. It seems to me that the picture environment provides global positioning and the \put and multiput commands offers the same thing locally. I've attached my sample file again, showing multipart and also that one is not restricted to the boundaries of the picture environment.
I've used \put with PSTricks. That may be the way to go.
But as this all has little or nothing to do with LyX, perhaps we will soon be \booted out of here? :-)
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