[XeTeX] centering a picture

William F. Adams wadams at atlis.com
Mon Aug 29 18:55:05 CEST 2005


On Aug 29, 2005, at 11:19 AM, Yves Codet wrote:

> If, using the "float" package, I write this:
>
> \begin{table}[H]
> 	\begin{center}
> 		\XeTeXpicfile "indus_pictogramme_figuier.gif" width 6cm
> 		\caption{Pictogrammes de l’Indus: figuier.}
> 	\end{center}
> \end{table}
>
> the caption is centered but the picture is at the left margin.
>
> But if, imitating an example by Jonathan, I write this:
>
> \begin{table}[H]
> 	\begin{center}
> 		\framebox{\setbox0=\hbox{\XeTeXpicfile 
> "indus_pictogramme_figuier.gif" width 6cm}\box0}
> 		\caption{Pictogrammes de l’Indus: figuier.}
> 	\end{center}
> \end{table}
>
> everything is centered. Is this a normal behaviour of LaTeX?

I believe you should put a blank line or force a paragraph after the 
manually placed graphic.

> Incidentally, some time ago (about one year actually) members of this 
> list helped me to write Sanskrit hyphenation patterns. I have been 
> using them since then and they seem to work well: so far I haven't 
> noticed any unwanted hyphenation. I wrote to Johannes Braams, asking 
> him if he could modify Babel so as to allow the inclusion of these 
> patterns thanks to his package, but got no reply. Since they may be 
> useful to other people in the TeX community, I would be glad to put 
> them at their disposal. To whom should I send them, without them to 
> land into a spam box?

Best would be to upload it to your local CTAN node (http://www.ctan.org 
for starters) or perhaps Jonathan could host it on sil.org?

William

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