Re: \placefigure[left] again!

[Bill McClain <wmcclain@salamander.com>]

On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 15:31:44 +0100
"Duncan Hothersall" <dh@capdm.com> wrote:

> Interestingly, it remains broken even if the \bf isn't there, just the
> open and close braces. So presumably this is something to do with the
> expansion of what comes after the \placefigure?

I ran into this also and wrote:

>I've found that it has to do with the content of my text. Any paragraph
>beginning with a block does not flow properly. The best workaround I
>have found is to insert a \strut at the beginning of the text where it
>starts with a block.

To which Hans replied:

> right, this is a known weakness: if you start a par with a \command,
> you may end up with yes/no indentation or some everypar interference
> (can for instance be due to the fact that the command can start a
> group and aftergroup things can be messed up), your \strut solution is
> ok (\indent\ noindent or \dontleavehmode is also ok), since they start
> the paragraph

So begin your text with:

    \strut {\bf ....}

or one of the other commands. \strut is a zero-width character.

-Bill
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