Contents of Figures and Plates

Figures and Plates

**Figure:** A demonstration paste-in figure. The width was given as `\hsize` (the column width), the height as 6 cm.
$\begin{figure}\figbox{\hsize}{6cm}{Paste Figure Here}\end{figure}$

The following instructions are for only.

Figures are entered in the figure or figure* environments, the latter being intended for double-column figures in two-column (preprint) format. Both environments produce identical results for manuscripts and camera-ready. The AGU provides a command \figurewidth to specify the width of the camera-ready caption; if it is omitted, the caption width is the normal column width. There is a limited number of allowed values as arguments: 20 pc (the default single-column width), 35 pc, and 41 pc. (For Radio Science with radga, the values are 19, 33, and 38 pc.)

JGR is still demanding that all figure captions be printed twice, once in width 20 and again in 35 pc. To enable this, give \doublecaption{35pc} somewhere in the document, preferrably in the preamble so you notice it.

The standard AGU package says that a figure environment should contain only an optional \figurewidth command and a compulsory \caption command, and nothing else. allows real figure contents to be included, but packed in a special \figbox. This command takes three arguments: the width and height of the box, and the figure contents. The contents may be merely a note about what figure is to be pasted here, or a diagram made with picture or PicTEX, or an imported figure from other software, such as an encapsulated PostScript¹ file.

An example of the input text for a figure is:

\begin{figure*}
  \figurewidth{35pc}
  \figbox{35pc}{12cm}{\epsfysize=10cm
                      \epsfbox{myfig.eps}}
  \caption{A plot of Y versus X for various
    times\label{fig:my}}
\end{figure*}

(The commands \epsf... require the style option epsf and the PostScript driver dvips of Tomas Rokicki.)

A sample result is shown in Figure $[*]$ .

The \figbox command reserves a framed box of the specified size and centers the contents both horizontally and vertically. It makes use of the standard L^ATEX \framebox command, which can be customized with the parameters \fboxrule and \fboxsep. The rule may be suppressed by setting the former to 0pt.

Plates are made up in exactly the same way as figures but with the plateand plate* environments. These are not part of standard L^ATEX, but have been added for AGU publications. In place of \figurewidth, one must use \platewidth; however, \figbox works for plates as well.