On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 10:31:06AM +0200, Vincent Hennebert wrote: > Hi Simon, > > Ok, I've taken out my LaTeX book again to be sure I understand you. > > >Vincent, > > > >Your proposal to improve the algorithm for the placement of footnotes > >and before-floats sounds fine. A few comments. > > > >'Ideally there would be a configuration setting telling which ratio of > >the page should be filled with normal content; if this ratio is null > >then pages only made of out-of-line objects would be allowed.' I think > >this may be split into several configuration settings: > >- The minimum amount of normal content on a page. > > OK. This corresponds to the \textfraction parameter, right?
Right. > >- Whether float pages are allowed. Even when the minimum amount is not > > zero, the user may set this to true. > > OK. ...mmmh, found no dedicated LaTeX parameter for that. > \floatpagefraction=0? No, there is no such parameter in LaTeX. It is always allowed, subject to the setting of the following parameter. > >- The minimum amount of float content on a float page before it may be > > considered feasible. Only relying on the normal demerits calculation > > for the stretch or shrink may be too restrictive. > > Moreover, if the figures are made of images, there is likely to be few > shrink/stretch. > This is also the \floatpagefraction parameter? Actually I don't really > understand this parameter. At least, I don't understand its interest: > this means that underfull float-only pages are acceptable? This looks > weird to me. Indeed, \floatpagefraction. You hardly ever can fill a page with floats for 100%. With this parameter the user indicates that he is satisfied with a page of floats which is say filled for 70%. If a work contains many floats, this may be a nicer solution than having a long queue of floats which can only be published on a much later page. For example, you have 8 floats called in consecutive paragraphs, each taking 35% of a page. If you place text below the floats, more floats are called. A page of floats filled 70% will solve that problem. > But as it would be easy to implement, I can do it. Related question: > would footnotes be allowed on float-only pages, or only before-floats? > This may be useful for books with many many footnotes. But for other > books this can look weird. WDYT? Another config parameter? I guess you can do that. Most people would not consider that to be a floats page, but a page with text which happens to have only footnotes. In terms of FO's regions, it is indeed a floats page. Regards, Simon -- Simon Pepping home page: http://www.leverkruid.eu
