Re: \placefigure unpredicatable.

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 10:03 AM 5/21/2002 -0400, John Culleton wrote:
>I have found the \placefigure command to be somewhat unpredictable.
>I am doing book reviews on 11 x8.5 format (i.e. landscape), double column.
>At the head of each review on the left side of the column I have some short
>lines ended with \hfil\break. On the right side I have a thumbnail of the
>book, typically 1.5in x 2in.
>
>If I use \placefigure the picture ends up in the middle and the short lines
>fall under it. If however I do something like:
>-----------------------------------
>\subsubsection{Get Published!}
>\rightline{\pdfimage{sansaveria.png}}
>\vglue -2in
>Penny C. Sansavieri\bk
>1stBooks Library October 2001\bk
>Paperback 6 x 9 165pp. indexed \$15.54\bk

wait (or try) for columnsets, they are more robust and give you al lot of 
control over floats

also, processing multi columns in grid mode is more robust too with regards 
to floats

(the multi column mechanism tries hard to balance so glue spoils this game)

Hans
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