[OS X TeX] Sizing figures, especially with subfloats

[Michael Sharpe]

> On Aug 18, 2024, at 2:56 PM, Nitecki, Zbigniew H. <Zbigniew.Nitecki at tufts.edu> wrote:
> 
> Using the figure environment, what determines the size set aside for a figure?
> 
> I am drawing a series of pictures (grids) some focusing on only a part of the whole.  The inital overview of the whole does not need to be at the same
> scale as the views of the pieces, but then I want to return to the whole at full scale.
> 
> I can change the size of the image of the grid using the [unit= ] setting when starting a pspicture, but that doesn’t affect the size of the float, which
> wastes a lot of space and messes up float placement when I try to place a smaller version of the full picture.
> On the other hand, I would like to keep the coordinate system the same across these various pictures, rather than re-calculating the coordinates to 
> make the picture smaller.  (Is there a “special coordinates" setting for this/
> 
The size of the float is determined in this case by the size of the pspicture. It appears that changes to the unit have to be made before the pspicture is created, not as an optional argument to the \pspicture macro. See the attached file.

Michael

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