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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} |