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Date:         Tue, 14 Dec 93 09:20:34 LCL
From: Mike Piff <M.Piff@sheffield.ac.uk>
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Subject:      Re: floats and marginal notes
Status: R


Grant Gustafson writes:
%>Dear Mike,
%>
%>Currently, LaTeX puts a figure where the float algorithm says to put it.
%>The decision depends upon many parameters and it is complex. The
%>settings used by the popular styles [article, book, report] for these
%>parameters cause the figures to be placed in other locations infra, with
%>no easy control over which page gets the figure.
%>
%>etc

Grant provides ample evidence of the float mechanism failing, and I am
prepared to believe him.

My only experience has been with \begin{figure}[htbp], which served *me*
well, but clearly fails for others. I was well aware of the failure of
\begin{figure}[h].

One thing that *did* fail me however, was in typesetting tests with boxes to
fill in, and with the marks awarded set in the margin as marginal notes. A
few got set, but the vast majority disappeared completely. Pressure of time
forced me to settle on a less satisfactory \hfill\rlap{} solution. I have
never been back to discover exactly why these marginal notes disappeared. Is
this a well known phenomenon?

Mike Piff

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