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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/easyfloats/content/names.tex b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/easyfloats/content/names.tex new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..e8f67080725 --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/easyfloats/content/names.tex @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +% !TeX root = ../easyfloats.tex + +\section{Names} +\label{names} + +You have probably heard the term *floating object* or *float* for short. +That is mainly what this package is about. +However, I intended to avoid the term *floating* in the name of this package because this package also allows +to globally disable the floating of those objects. +Therefore I decided to name this package *objects*. + +This name, however, has been rejected by \TeX\ Live as being too generic. +And they are right, especially for people with an object oriented programming background that name might be misleading. +\TeX\ Live has informed me that floating objects are still called floats even if they are technically not floating. +Therefore I have decided to rename this package to *easyfloats*. + +I have *not* changed the user interface because the package has already been online for more than half a year on my gitlab repository and I don't know how many people are using the package already. +Therefore all commands and environments defined by this package still carry the old name *object* in them. |