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Subject: 'page' placement key for floats
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 12:30:09 +0200
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I have some large floats which I want to place on pages of their own.

\placefloat[page][xyz]{bla}{\externalfigure[somefig]}

leads to an immediate page-break and the figure (alone) on the next page. I 
expected the figure alone on the next page, but not the immediate page 
break, since like that, the figure is not really a float. Shouldn't the 
page be completed using material following \placefigure?

\startpostponing
\placefloat[page][xyz]{bla}{\externalfigure[somefig]}
\stoppostponing

gives the desired result.

Eckhart