Re[3]: Side-by-side floats?

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 12:38 PM 7/19/2001 +0200, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:

>Almost there! Now we only need a way to be able to refer to each
>of the tables on its own. I have this sort of suggestion: sort of

it's there already: just add an second arg [with a nice ref]

>"swapping" combination and floats. That is, instead of having a
>float of combinations, provide a (different) command that gives a
>combination of floats. So the user could do:
>
>\startfloatcombo
>\placefigure[fig1]{A cow}{\externalfigure[koe]}
>\placetable[tab1]{A table}\starttable ... \stoptable
>\stopfloatcombo

would be weird to implement

>Now, what about providing for
>
>+----+ Text Text Text Text Text +----+
>|    | Text Text Text Text Text |    |
>|    | Text Text Text Text Text |    |
>+----+ Text Text Text Text Text +----+
>Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Txt
>Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Txt
>
>Or other "fancy" things like that?

i have been thinking of that when doing the tex flow following backgrounds 
and it is possible, but first i want to fresh up the side float otr

Hans
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