[OS X TeX] Captions in graphix

[Ross Moore]

> 
> Whoops, figured it out.  I had used \abstract{ abstract body} to 
> delimitate the abstract body.  This was making pdftex

Ahah.  The old undelimited \abstract trick.


> think the whole paper content was an abstract and reducing the typesize 
> accordingly.  I never did understand the limitations
> of the \environment{text text} command.  This works for emphasis or the 
> like does it not, e.g. \emph{a phrase} correctly, why doesn't it work 
> for something like abstract?

There is an {abstract} environment.
You should use it as:

 \begin{abstract}
  ...
 \end{abstract}

You can also use it in the deprecated way:

 \abstract
  ...
 \endabstract

and get the same appearance.

The difference is that by eschewing the  \begin{...} tagging,
in preference for the shorter \abstract  form,
you stop LaTeX from keeping track of what is the current environment.
So if you make a mistake, then LaTeX cannot help you determine what
is wrong.

Essentially one has that:

  \begin{abstract}  --->  do some environment book-keeping
                          then do  \abstract

  \end{abstract}   --->   do  \endabstract  then close-off the
                          book-keeping for the {abstract} env.

so that the real work is done by \abstract and \endabstract .


Hope this helps,

	Ross Moore


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