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author | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2009-05-22 23:51:44 +0000 |
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committer | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2009-05-22 23:51:44 +0000 |
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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-floatpages.html b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-floatpages.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..79c7a8812ec --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-floatpages.html @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +<head> +<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label floatpages</title> +</head><body> +<h3>Floats on their own on float pages</h3> +<p/>It’s sometimes necessary to force a float to live on a page by itself. +(It’s sometimes even necessary for <em>every</em> float to live on a +page by itself.) When the float fails to ‘set’, and waits for the end +of a chapter or of the document, the natural thing to do is to declare +the float as +<blockquote> + <code>\</code><code>begin{figure}[p!]</code> +</blockquote><p> +but the overriding <code>!</code> modifier has no effect on float page floats; so +you have to make the float satisfy the parameters. +<a href="FAQ-floats.html">Moving tables and figures</a> offers some +suggestions, but doesn’t solve the one-float-per-page question. +<p/>The ‘obvious’ solution, using the counter <code>totalnumber</code> +(“total number of floats per page”) doesn’t work: +<code>totalnumber</code> only applies to floats on ‘text’ pages (pages +containing text as well as one or more float). So, to allow any +size float to take a whole page, set <code>\</code><code>floatpagefraction</code> really +small, and to ensure that no more than one float occupies a page, make +the separation between floats really big: +<blockquote> +<pre> +\renewcommand\floatpagefraction{.001} +\makeatletter +\setlength\@fpsep{\textheight} +\makeatother +</pre> +</blockquote><p> +<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=floatpages">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=floatpages</a> +</body> |