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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-slashbox.html b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-slashbox.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..a209eb2eb06 --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-slashbox.html @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@ +<head> +<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label slashbox</title> +</head><body> +<h3>Diagonal separation in corner cells of tables</h3> +<!-- tabular --> +<p/>You want to label both the top or bottom row and the left- or +rightmost column, somewhere at the corner of the table where the row +and column meet. A simple way to achieve the result is to construct +the table with an arrangement of rules (and possibly <code>\</code><code>multicolumn</code> +entries), to look like: +<blockquote> +<pre> +----------------- +x y + -------------- + 1 2 3 4 5 +----------------- +1 +2 +3 +4 +5 +----------------- +</pre> +</blockquote><p> +However, this doesn’t satisfy everyone: many want the labelling in a +single cell at the top left of the table. It sounds a simple enough +requirement, yet it calls for some slightly tricky LaTeX coding. +The <i>slashbox</i> package does the job for you: it defines +commands <code>\</code><code>slashbox</code> and <code>\</code><code>backslashbox</code>, each taking the two +labels as arguments. It draws a picture with the two labels on either +side of a slanting line; the command (and hence the picture) may be +placed in the corner cell, where the labelled row and column meet. +<p/>The package isn’t the world’s neatest: it uses LaTeX +<code>picture</code> mode to draw its line, and picture mode has many +tedious restrictions (and doesn’t, in all honesty, produce +particularly good pictures). Load slashbox with the <i>pict2e</i> +package, and at least the picture quality will be improved. +<p/>Documentation of <i>slashbox</i> is less than satisfactory: a +LaTeX source file of rather startling starkness accompanies the +package file in the distribution. It does, however, process to a +DVI file that gives some idea of how the <code>\</code><code>slashbox</code> may be +expected to look. (The third example in the file shows the effect of +<code>picture</code> mode’s restrictions: the dividing line doesn’t +go from corner to corner in the box: to correct this requires revision +of <i>slashbox</i> — <i>pict2e</i> alone doesn’t help in this +regard.) +<dl> +<dt><tt><i>slashbox.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/slashbox.zip">macros/latex/contrib/slashbox</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/slashbox.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/slashbox/">browse</a>) +</dl> +<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=slashbox">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=slashbox</a> +</body> |