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Wednesday, July 18, 2001 Hans Hagen wrote:
>>
>>But the latter (one number for each) is one of the things I want.

HH> Ah, how demanding. how about:

[snip]

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
"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

If you want to try something even more complex (or simpler) then
you could just provide for multiple floats on the same paragraph.
IIRC, floats are also used to "shape" paragraph, because they give
layouts like

+----+ 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 Text Text Text a Text
Text Text Text Text Text Text a Text

or

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 Text Text Text a Text
Text Text Text Text Text Text a Text

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?

--
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta