'page' placement key for floats

'page' placement key for floats

[Eckhart Guthöhrlein]

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

Re: 'page' placement key for floats

[Hans Hagen]

At 12:30 PM 9/5/2001 +0200, Eckhart Guthöhrlein wrote:

A very late reaction to:

>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.

When processing a manual i found out that the page float macro was 
overloaded by a wrong one, this is the one that works:

\def\OTRONEsomepagefloat[#1]%
   {\global\setbox\collectedpagefloats=\vbox
      {\unvbox\collectedpagefloats
       \vbox to \teksthoogte
         {\doifnotinset{\v!hoog}{#1}{\vfill}
          \box\floatbox
          \doifnotinset{\v!laag}{#1}{\vfill}}
       \goodbreak}%
    \doinsertfloatinfo}

[this one is in page-flt.tex but wrongly replaced in page-one.tex; the one 
above does what you expect; opposite to the postpponing, it does not 
collect floats on one page but puts them on separate pages; you can provide 
high/low keys too]

Hans

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