Disabling Floats on certain pages

Disabling Floats on certain pages

[Taco Hoekwater]

Hi all,

Sometimes I want to prevent floats from appearing on a certain page 
(like e.g. the title page). I now have a macro that seems to work, but 
it is extremely ugly. Does anyone know of a cleaner way to do this 
(besides testing if \beforefinaloutput really is empty)?

\def\nofloatsonthispage{%
   \gdef\beforefinaloutput{% for this page
     \global\nofloatpermittedtrue
     \gdef\beforefinaloutput{% for the next page
       \global\nofloatpermittedfalse
       \gdef\beforefinaloutput{}% for all following pages
    }%
}%

Greetings, Taco

Re: Disabling Floats on certain pages

[Hans Hagen]

At 04:11 PM 6/14/01 +0000, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Sometimes I want to prevent floats from appearing on a certain page 
>(like e.g. the title page). I now have a macro that seems to work, but 
>it is extremely ugly. Does anyone know of a cleaner way to do this 
>(besides testing if \beforefinaloutput really is empty)?
>
>\def\nofloatsonthispage{%
>   \gdef\beforefinaloutput{% for this page
>     \global\nofloatpermittedtrue
>     \gdef\beforefinaloutput{% for the next page
>       \global\nofloatpermittedfalse
>       \gdef\beforefinaloutput{}% for all following pages
>    }%
>}%

slightly cleaner is this: 

\def\nofloatsonthispage%
  {\global\nofloatspermittedtrue
   \gdef\checkfloatpermissions{\global\nofloatspermittedfalse}}

\def\nofloatsonnextpage%
  {\global\let\checkfloatpermissions\nofloatsonthispage}

\appendtoks 
  \checkfloatpermissions   
  \global\let\checkfloatpermissions\relax 
\to \aftereverypage

! ! ! ! untested ! ! ! !

Hans

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