John O'Gorman wrote:
> The hard part is now understanding the (entirely uncommented)
> g-brief-en.cls file. I have the books (by Lamport, Goossens, et alii)
> but the .cls file uses things like picture(0,0) in undocumented ways.
> This seems to produce a picture environment of zero dimensions! with
> everything placed in it with \put(x,y) statements actually placed
> "outside" the picture.
the values of the picture environment are only important if you
want to reserve some place for your picture. they are NOT the real
size of your picture. so the command \begin{picture}(0,0) reserves
no space for the following picture-commands, means: the picture
will be drawn just over the textarea.
> I have discovered a mysterious world of ifx, ifcase, ..
there must be an english version of Fritz Cremers "the little
TeXbook" in the net. it's good for a first information of all
this tex-stuff.
good texing ...
HErbert
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