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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/boxhandler/README b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/boxhandler/README index 5796322f19a..aeff54b5380 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/boxhandler/README +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/boxhandler/README @@ -1,22 +1,28 @@ 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 |