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authorKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2011-02-19 00:37:41 +0000
committerKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2011-02-19 00:37:41 +0000
commit8f846f8a8c7b2774059df2db0f153948e98cccf1 (patch)
treeff1781fa9b83db1e66c931962c18f57ae3428294 /Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/faq-t-g-wr.tex
parent09eb455bf0a899e9231b600e1326d5e0e4a67aca (diff)
FAQ-en 3.21 (18feb11)
git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@21459 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751
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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/faq-t-g-wr.tex b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/faq-t-g-wr.tex
index 6bc78ba7267..6f6353a9ac1 100644
--- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/faq-t-g-wr.tex
+++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/faq-t-g-wr.tex
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-% $Id: faq-t-g-wr.tex,v 1.7 2010/08/16 22:04:13 rf10 Exp rf10 $
+% $Id: faq-t-g-wr.tex,v 1.9 2011/02/08 22:17:17 rf10 Exp rf10 $
\section{Things are Going Wrong\dots{}}
@@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ part of the distribution). \ProgName{MathsPic} is available either as
a \ProgName{Basic} program for \acro{DOS}, or as a \ProgName{Perl}
program for other systems (including Windows, nowadays).
\begin{ctanrefs}
+\item[etex.sty]\CTANref{etex-pkg}
\item[m-pictex.sty]Distributed as part of \CTANref{context-tmf}
\item[m-pictex.tex]Distributed as part of \CTANref{context-tmf}
\item[MathsPic]\CTANref{mathspic}
@@ -179,8 +180,24 @@ equally well to tables, or to ``non-standard'' floats defined by the
resort if the other possibilities below don't help.
\item If you would actually \emph{like} great blocks of floats at the
end of each of your chapters, try the \Package{morefloats} package;
- this `simply' increases the number of floating inserts that \LaTeX{}
- can handle at one time (from~18 to~36).
+ this allows you to increase the number of floating inserts that \LaTeX{}
+ can handle at one time (from its original value of~18, in
+ \LaTeXe{}). Note that, even with \etex{}'s greater supply of
+ registers, there is still a modest limit on the total number of
+ floating inserts (\etex{} increases the total number of registers
+ available, but inserts don't work if they are constructed from
+ registers in the extended range).
+
+ Caveat: if you are using \Package{etex} to increase the number of
+ registers available, you need to ``reserve'' some inserts for
+ \Package{morefloats}: something like:
+ \begin{quote}
+\begin{verbatim}
+\usepackage{etex}
+\reserveinserts{18}
+\usepackage{morefloats}
+\end{verbatim}
+ \end{quote}
\item If you actually \emph{wanted} all your figures to float to the
end (\emph{e.g}., for submitting a draft copy of a paper), don't
rely on \LaTeX{}'s mechanism: get the \Package{endfloat} package to do
@@ -189,6 +206,7 @@ equally well to tables, or to ``non-standard'' floats defined by the
\begin{ctanrefs}
\item[afterpage.sty]Distributed as part of \CTANref{2etools}[afterpage]
\item[endfloat.sty]\CTANref{endfloat}
+\item[etex.sty]\CTANref{etex-pkg}
\item[flafter.sty]Part of the \LaTeX{} distribution
\item[float.sty]\CTANref{float}
\item[morefloats.sty]\CTANref{morefloats}