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Date:         Mon, 20 Dec 93 09:51:04 LCL
From: Mike Piff <M.Piff@sheffield.ac.uk>
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Subject:      Re: another forward: floats and LAMSTEX
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rfehren@hexi6.msd.anl.gov (Roland Fehrenbacher x5532) writes:

%>(1) Concerning the issue of placing figures in LATEX, I just have a small
%>remark. Even though I really do not like LATEX (the old version) I am still
%>interested in what is going to happen with this package in the future. What I
%>actually use is LAMSTEX, a package which combines many features of LATEX with
%>the standard AMSTEX stuff. It is written by Spivak, the author of AMSTEX. Now
%>my intention here is not to convert people from LATEX to LAMSTEX, but to point
%>out that LAMSTEX has an excellent algorithm for figure placing, which leaves
%>the choice of automatic or manual placement, and is very accurate, even when
%>dealing with many figures. I wrote a couple of papers, and my thesis with it,
%>and never had any complaints, whereas I had a lot of trouble when I used LATEX
%>for my diploma thesis a couple of years back. I believe whoever wants to have
 a
%>go in changing the figure placement for LATEX should consult LAMSTEX first.
%>

This prompted me to look at the parameters I used in a recent book, apart
from htbp placement.

\setcounter{totalnumber}{10}
\setcounter{bottomnumber}{10}
\renewcommand{\topfraction}{1.0}
\renewcommand{\bottomfraction}{1.0}
\renewcommand{\textfraction}{0.0}
\renewcommand{\floatpagefraction}{0.8}

In other words, stick it where you can in this order, with little restriction
on the proportion of text and floats, or number of floats.

Does anyone have any examples where this fails badly, and/or is worse than
the method used in lamstex?

Mike Piff


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