[Qgis-developer] LaTeX newbie questions

[Tim Sutton]

Hi
On 27/07/2006, at 23:45, Brendan Morley wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> Given my newbie experience with adding in documentation, I had a  
> couple
> of issues.  In each case, I am trying to get a nice presentation in  
> the
> PDF output of the User Guide:
>
> 1. How do I get tips, figures, etc. to be placed in-line?  Figure 5  
> (the
> picture of England) now appears on PDF page 28 when its reference  
> in the
> text appears way back on page 25.
>

You can suggest [h] to place the picture 'here'. Sometimes the only  
way to get the picture to place close to your text is to use  
clearpage (but that can leave a half a blank page in the middle of no  
where so its not always desireable....

See this page for more

http://mintaka.sdsu.edu/GF/bibliog/latex/floats.html

> 2. How can I get the index to appear in the bookmarks of the PDF  
> viewer?
> Currently it goes from "Building Plugins" to "Cited literature" (with
> "Cited literature" bookmarking to the first page of the index!)
>



For me the index does appear....there


Regards

Tim

>
> By the way, I consider my next task is to go back through my commit  
> logs
> and fill in the fine details of the User Guide accordingly.   
> (That's the
> main reason my commit messages are so verbose, actually.)
>
> Thanks!
> Brendan
>
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Tim Sutton
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