I would like to get an effect similar to bytefield's letf/right word groups on the bottom of a bytefield. I didn't see any obvious way to do this in the bytefield documentation. My Latex macro knowledge is not particularly strong, is there a good way to extend bytefield to support a bottom/top word group?
Exact request best explained by MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[layout=letterpaper,margin=1in]{geometry}
\usepackage[endianness=big]{bytefield}
\bytefieldsetup{boxformatting={\centering\footnotesize}}
\begin{document}
A 32-bit piece of data is divided into a header and some subfields. The
header is further subdivided into two parts
\begin{center}
\begin{bytefield}[bitwidth=1.2em]{32}
\bitheader{0-31} \\
\bitbox{4}{Header.A}
\bitbox{4}{Header.B}
\bitbox{20}{Subfield 1}
\bitbox{4}{Subfield 2}
\end{bytefield}
\end{center}
\noindent
Word groups are the right look / style, but only go on the left/right?
\begin{center}
\begin{bytefield}[bitwidth=1.2em]{32}
\begin{leftwordgroup}{Header}
\bitheader{0-31} \\
\bitbox{4}{Header.A}
\bitbox{4}{Header.B}
\bitbox{20}{Subfield 1}
\bitbox{4}{Subfield 2}
\end{leftwordgroup}
\end{bytefield}
\end{center}
\noindent
I would like the brace / label below the whole header section, e.g.:
%
\begin{verbatim}
+-----------------------------------------
| Header.A | Header.B | Subfield 1...
+-----------------------------------------
\_ _/
--------\/--------
Header
\end{verbatim}
\end{document}
Best Answer
You can put the underbrace in a borderless
\bitbox
under the header.In the example below we use
amsmath
for the\text
command since\underbrace
is a math construction: