[texhax] Problem with figure

[Donald Arseneau]

I'm quite late looking at this, but...

On Fri, December 6, 2013 5:22 am, Philip Taylor wrote:
> LaTeX provides the two macros \topfigrule and \botfigrule for this
> purpose. Don't be irritated, the two commands apply in general to all
> floats and not only figures.

>     \def\topfigrule{\vskip1ex\noindent\dotfill}
>     \def\botfigrule{\noindent\dotfill\vskip1ex}
>
> The only restriction to their content is that it mustn't occupy vertical
> space (or this must be compensable).

So the provided definitions should have occupied no vertical space!

Maybe like
   \def\topfigrule{\vskip5pt \hrule height 0.2pt \vskip-5.2pt}
   \def\botfigrule{\vskip-5.2pt \hrule height 0.2pt \vskip5pt}

Donald Arseneau, TRIUMF CMMS, asnd at triumf.ca