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From: Anselm Lingnau <lingnau@MATH.UNI-FRANKFURT.DE>
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Subject:      \newfloat (was: Re: LaTeX 3 floating strategy: plates)
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Adrian Clark writes:

> A SUGGESTION.  Just as there are \newcommand and friends, surely it is
>    possible to produce a \newfloat command?  I'm thinking along the
>    lines of
>
>       \newfloat[\placement]{listing}{chapter}

Slightly off-topic, but... I did that some time ago for the current LaTeX. The
result should be available from a friendly server near you under the name of
`float.sty'. Definitely at Stuttgart. Anyhow, I'm all in favour of adding that
functionality to LaTeX3.

I don't think LaTeX should predefine any kinds of floats other than figure and
table. Maybe not even those, but I don't suppose that would really buy much.
It's really more important to be able to define anything one needs in the
\newwhatever manner.

I like the idea of having a placement `macro' instead of a tbph specifier.
While I don't see right now how to make that work LaTeXnically, it would be
nice just to be able to say \newfloat[topofpage] or \newfloat[endofchapter]
or whatever, with something like \pl@topofpage defined by the document style
(or even a \newplacement?) Of course, \newfloat[endofchapter] would be nice
for endnotes, if nothing else.

Anselm
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