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The boxhandler package
======================
-This package provides a powerful, yet simple, interface for managing and
-manipulating the captions of boxed objects (e.g., tables and figures).
-In addition to providing wide flexibility in the presentation style of
-the captions, this package, when used in combination with conditionally
-compiled LaTeX source codes, provides the ability to defer or preempt
-the presentation of figures, tables, and their associated lists.
-
-In this way, one can, for example, by changing a single line of source
-code in the .tex file, change the output of LaTeX from a technical
-report with tables and figures interspersed in the text, to a
-journal-manuscript submission, with figures collected at the end of
-document, as well as lof and lot deferred or preempted.
-
-These routines for table and figure deferral may also be employed to
-allow all your figure and table definitions to reside in a separate file
-and yet still print out in the proper location in the document.
+ Tools for Optimizing Captions, Presentation, and Placement
+ of Tables and Figures
+
+
+This package facilitates the optimized presentation of LaTeX tables and
+figures. Not only can boxhandler conveniently lay out table and figure
+captions with a wide variety of stylistic appearances, but allows for
+figures and tables to be ``wrapped'' in a manner consistent with many
+business and government documents.
+
+For a document that might appear in different venues with different
+formatting, boxhandler very powerfully permits the creation of a LaTeX
+source document that can, with a single-line change in the source code,
+produce an output that has vastly different layout from the baseline
+configuration, not only in terms of caption style, but more importantly
+in terms of the locations where figures, tables and lists appear (or
+not) in the document.
+
+Deferral routines also allow one to keep all figure and table data in a
+separate source file, while nonetheless producing a document with
+figures and tables appearing in the desired location in the document.
+
Run `boxhandler.ins' through LaTeX to produce boxhandler.sty
from boxhandler.dtx.
@@ -25,4 +31,4 @@ Run `boxhandler.dtx' through LaTeX to produce the documentation.
This program can be redistributed and/or modified, with attribution.
Steven Segletes <steven@arl.army.mil>
- 29 July 2006
+ 16 August 2008