X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil t nil] [nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil]) Date: Wed, 16 May 90 16:59:29 GMT Reply-To: LaTeX-L Mailing list From: CA_ROWLEY@VAX.ACS.OPEN.AC.UK Subject: Do we need a \newfloat command? To: Rainer Schoepf Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 101 My question (see subject) is prompted by the following message From: David Osborne What I really mean is: what should the designer/user interface to Latex's float handling look like? chris ********************************************************************* someone here wants to include plates in their document, or at least, leave the space for them. given that (La)TeX is intended for high-quality typesetting, it's not an unreasonable request. i'd like to suggest the addition of \begin{plate} \end{plate} and \listofplates (writing on *.lop) it couldn't be easier: it's just the figure environment by another name. (unless you think it's so trivial that it should be done by users, using \newenvironment and based on figure ?) - dave - **********************************************************************