X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["712" "Wed" "15" "December" "93" "21:02:28" "CET" "Michael Downes" "MJD@MATH.AMS.ORG" nil "18" "Preceding-page figure placement" "^Date:" nil nil "12" nil nil]) Return-Path: Received: from sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (mailserv) by dagobert.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.1/SMI-4.0/24.6.93) id AA05665; Thu, 16 Dec 93 12:34:32 +0100 Received: from mail.cs.tu-berlin.de by sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.1/SMI-4.0-sc/03.06.93) id AA10447; Thu, 16 Dec 93 12:34:31 +0100 Received: from tubvm.cs.tu-berlin.de by mail.cs.tu-berlin.de with SMTP id AA04018 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4(mail.m4[1.12]) for <@MAIL.CS.TU-BERLIN.DE:Schoepf@SC.ZIB-BERLIN.DE>); Thu, 16 Dec 1993 10:55:06 +0100 Message-Id: <199312160955.AA04018@mail.cs.tu-berlin.de> Received: from TUBVM.CS.TU-BERLIN.DE by tubvm.cs.tu-berlin.de (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 5744; Thu, 16 Dec 93 10:55:40 +0200 Received: from VM.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (NJE origin MAILER@DHDURZ1) by TUBVM.CS.TU-BERLIN.DE (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 5743; Thu, 16 Dec 1993 10:55:40 +0200 Received: from DHDURZ1 (NJE origin LISTSERV@DHDURZ1) by VM.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 4703; Wed, 15 Dec 1993 21:02:43 +0000 Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Date: Wed, 15 Dec 93 21:02:28 CET From: Michael Downes Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple Recipients of Subject: Preceding-page figure placement Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 1211 Phil Taylor wrote: > ... a most important desideratum: that > of placing a float so that it is visible from its point of reference, > \stress {even if that means placing the figure on the page _preceding_ > the point of reference}. I must admit to puzzlement about when such a placement (figure on a preceding, facing page) would actually occur. Can you give some examples? If a figure reference occurs 5cm from the bottom of page 59 (right-hand page) and the figure is 6cm tall, I don't see how moving the figure to page 58 will help anything: it will most likely push the figure reference to page 60, leaving the figure once again not visible from the point of reference. Michael Downes mjd@math.ams.org