Received: from mail.proteosys.com ([213.139.130.197]) by nummer-3.proteosys with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Fri, 7 Dec 2007 17:37:11 +0100 Received: by mail.proteosys.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id lB7Gb6fN016986 for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2007 17:37:07 +0100 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.94]) by relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id lB7GSTWv007134 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 7 Dec 2007 17:28:29 +0100 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.94]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id lB7DppUZ027300; Fri, 7 Dec 2007 17:30:14 +0100 Received: by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 211925 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Fri, 7 Dec 2007 17:30:13 +0100 Received: from relay.uni-heidelberg.de (relay.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.212]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id lB7GUD8s005785 for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2007 17:30:13 +0100 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.183]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id lB7GU8wp020764 for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2007 17:30:13 +0100 Received: from morse.mittelbach-online.de (p54A9A889.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.169.168.137]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu4) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0ML21M-1J0g5Y1eHG-00029n; Fri, 07 Dec 2007 17:30:08 +0100 Received: by morse.mittelbach-online.de (Postfix, from userid 501) id 3C8A961825; Fri, 7 Dec 2007 17:30:07 +0100 (CET) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <18251.18406.62310.939815@morse.mittelbach-online.de> <475826B1.6080309@arcor.de> <18264.27206.909337.443883@morse.mittelbach-online.de> <475897D9.4040708@arcor.de> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 21.3.1 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX180Tf2TbLCIGFJGQbee7XKFlOn69/ThzTVAKCf NIBc595ek6KqEWwCwhMvHh1BF+uF8ylh+krapLcu12ZYumlFou eyklAdKHmDeONCh8YSy6IuDlWE3KPmc X-Spam-Whitelist-Provider: Message-ID: <18265.29966.935994.830914@morse.mittelbach-online.de> Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 17:30:06 +0100 Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project From: Frank Mittelbach Subject: Re: Extending the output routine to allow float placement styles To: LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE In-Reply-To: <475897D9.4040708@arcor.de> Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-ProteoSys-SPAM-Score: -102.464 () BAYES_00,FORGED_RCVD_HELO,USER_IN_WHITELIST X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.57 on 213.139.130.197 Return-Path: owner-latex-l@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE X-OriginalArrivalTime: 07 Dec 2007 16:37:11.0913 (UTC) FILETIME=[6ABC6590:01C838EF] Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 5104 Stephan, > > > (iii) A generalization could be to let text (and floats) flow through > > > an arbitrary page number pattern (useful for critical editions?) > > > > it would be interesting to come up with a spec for this. basically what > > would be missing for something like this is a way to control float pages. > > Do you think the problem is different for text and float pages? no, I'm just saying that at the moment the generation of floatpages is greedy (for good reasons really) in that it will attempt to build floatpages after every finished page and at the moment only stops doing that if there aren't enough floats waiting. frank