Re: Cloned floats (Was: Re[2]: itemize extended)

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 02:01 PM 12/11/2001 +0100, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:

>Tuesday, December 11, 2001 Hans Hagen wrote:
>
>HH> since you're such a source watcher: take a look at clonable floats,
>
>HH> \definefloat[gbsfloat][figure]
>
>HH> \placegbsfloat ....
>
>HH> which you can set up separately; the inner/outer alignment stuff is
>HH> experimental.
>
>What a coincidence! I had just come across it while thinking of a
>way to put groups of floats together. Thanks to your patch to separate
>the float content from the caption (which allows to put different
>floats together in \startcombination, each with its caption), I
>decided to define a new float, called floatgroup, without caption.
>So I went to study the sources (who needs the manual? ;->) and
>discovered the cloning feature!

well, this is a precursor to a more advanced placement mechanism, so for 
the rest you need a bit patience -)

Hans
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