Received: via tmail-4.1(11) (invoked by user schoepf) for schoepf; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 10:50:37 +0100 (MET) Received: from mailgate2.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (mailgate2.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.8.57]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA06821 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 10:50:37 +0100 (MET) Received: from mail.listserv.gmd.de (mail.listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.5]) by mailgate2.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA07292 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 10:50:36 +0100 (MET) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01BF88E3.C1339480" Received: from mail.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.5) by mail.listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <11.6A65F7AE@mail.listserv.gmd.de>; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 10:49:17 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 451937 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 10:47:48 +0100 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Received: from ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (mail.urz.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.119.234]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA22371 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 10:47:47 +0100 (MET) Received: from relay.uni-heidelberg.de (relay.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.212]) by ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA56532 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 10:50:26 +0100 Received: from ixgate02.dfnrelay.d400.de (ixgate02.dfnrelay.d400.de [193.174.248.2]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA08664 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 10:47:45 +0100 (MET) In-Reply-To: "CMM.0.91.0.952480290.beebe": References: "CMM.0.91.0.952480290.beebe": Return-Path: X-Mailer: VM 6.44 under Emacs 19.34.1 x-vm-v5-data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil]["544" "Wed" "8" "March" "2000" "10:49:54" "+0100" "Chris Rowley" "C.A.Rowley@OPEN.AC.UK" nil "17" "Re: float position rules" "^Date:" nil nil "3" nil nil nil nil nil]nil) x400-received: by /PRMD=uk.ac/ADMD= /C=gb/; Relayed; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 10:49:54 +0100 x400-mts-identifier: [/PRMD=UK.AC/ADMD= /C=GB/;<14534.8508.834747.793741@fell.o] content-identifier: Re: float pos... x400-content-type: P2-1984 (2) alternate-recipient: Allowed x400-originator: C.A.Rowley@open.ac.uk x400-recipients: non-disclosure:; Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: Re: float position rules Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 10:49:54 +0100 Message-ID: <14534.8508.834747.793741*@MHS> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Chris Rowley" Sender: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" To: "Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L" Reply-To: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 3559 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01BF88E3.C1339480 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Nelson, Sebastian > I did check in Jan V. White's books, but he doesn't discuss the = placement > issue. Tufte's 3 books are more about the contents of the pictures, > rather than their placement. In any event, you probably have those 5 = on > your shelf already. Exactly! So perhaps Sebastian is correct and we should only provide the hand-crafted method. Is that Ok with you, Dr Rahtz? But I am sure that other list members will be more constructive than he. Thanks for your help, Nelson (This bit is addressed only to Nelson:-). chris ------_=_NextPart_001_01BF88E3.C1339480 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: float position rules

Nelson, Sebastian

> I did check in Jan V. White's books, but he = doesn't discuss the placement
> issue.  Tufte's 3 books are more about the = contents of the pictures,
> rather than their placement.  In any event, = you probably have those 5 on
> your shelf already.

Exactly!  So perhaps Sebastian is correct and we = should only provide
the hand-crafted method.

Is that Ok with you, Dr Rahtz?  But I am sure = that other list members
will be more constructive than he.

Thanks for your help, Nelson (This bit is addressed = only to Nelson:-).


chris

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