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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 deleted file mode 100644 index f67b8bc3c20..00000000000 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-slashbox.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,54 +0,0 @@ -<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, and the distribution includes that -file processed to a PDF file for reading over the net, if -necessary. (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>pict2e.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/pict2e.zip">macros/latex/contrib/pict2e</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/pict2e/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/pict2e.html">catalogue entry</a> -<dt><tt><i>slashbox.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/slashbox.zip">macros/latex/contrib/slashbox</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/slashbox/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/slashbox.html">catalogue entry</a> -</dl> -<p><em>This answer last edited: 2010-11-02</em></p> -<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> |