Multi-page floats

Multi-page floats

[Giuseppe Bilotta]

Hello,

this is a "request" on the same line as the "looks like float,
smells like a float, but is not a float" request.

The previous request was about defining objects that didn't really
float, but which would have a caption that would follow the
caption numbering of the same class of floats. Of course it made
sense only for "splittable" "floats" (like tables).

More in general, this request is about "multi-page" floats: floats
that could take more than one page (for example, a very long
table). It should be automatically split (which would require the
system to know where to split and how to split, which text to
replicate on the top or bottom of the split etc), and it would
have a caption on each page where it is present, a caption
containing a continuation message on each non-first page.

Is it already available?

--
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

Re: Multi-page floats

[Hans Hagen]

At 09:52 AM 9/3/2001 +0200, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
>Hello,
>
>this is a "request" on the same line as the "looks like float,
>smells like a float, but is not a float" request.
>
>The previous request was about defining objects that didn't really
>float, but which would have a caption that would follow the
>caption numbering of the same class of floats. Of course it made
>sense only for "splittable" "floats" (like tables).
>
>More in general, this request is about "multi-page" floats: floats
>that could take more than one page (for example, a very long
>table). It should be automatically split (which would require the
>system to know where to split and how to split, which text to
>replicate on the top or bottom of the split etc), and it would
>have a caption on each page where it is present, a caption
>containing a continuation message on each non-first page.
>
>Is it already available?

you mean \splitfloat [splitsplaatsblok] in page-flt.tex ?

[split and handles 3a 3b 3c like numbering]

Hans

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Re[2]: Multi-page floats

[Giuseppe Bilotta]

Tuesday, September 04, 2001 Hans Hagen wrote:

HH> you mean \splitfloat [splitsplaatsblok] in page-flt.tex ?

Hm. Could be, but I seem not to be able to get it right ... how do
you use it? I had some goes at it and I found out that

(1) the first float cannot be a split float (problems with
floatcaptionnumber not being defined)
(2) the lines= parameter seems to be ignored.
(3) does splitfloat "autosplit" or must the number of lines per
split be set in advance?

--
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta