Re: Floats in Columnsets

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 00:50 07/12/2003, you wrote:
>It appears as though \placefigure doesn't work very well with columnsets
>if the size of the floats isn't an exact multiple of the underlying
>grid. More precisely, \placefigure and friends, when used with any of
>the *tb and tb* options (tblr, tbrl, lrtb, rltb, fxtb) snap the bottom
>of the figure to the grid rather than the top. Of course, that means
>that most of the time figures will not be aligned at the top. (See below
>for an example.)
>
>Does anybody know of a fix or workaround for this problem?

These things have to do with the fact that captions should snap on the 
grid; however, you can influence things by setting the grid parameter for a 
float instance. More on that in details.pdf.

Also the next version has a grid key in \externalfigure which can snap 
scaling to combinations of (height div lineheight) * lines + [0,1] * depth 
+ [0,1] * height which in combination with the float grid options can give 
you whatever you want.

Hans

PS. Grid snapping introduced quite some border cases and a lot of effort 
has gone into providing control over that. An associated new feature is a 
yet to be documented  and for the moment experimental graphic/background 
synchronization mechanism.