> Floating figures and tables are useful for automating page breaks, but I too 
> have encountered people who insist that the figure must always immediately 
> follow the reference. Can anyone help me understand where this rule 
> originated?

 

I don’t know where the rule came from. Probably from the same people who said 
there needs to be lots of white space.

 

I generally follow the usual tech doc rules, but I know, too, that other kinds 
of publications don’t follow them at all and their readers do fine. There’s 
very little white space in books yet people have managed to learn from books 
for a few years. Magazines place illustrations every which where, but their 
readers manage to understand them. Newspapers and magazines even use, gasp!, 
multi-column layouts. 

 

 

= Mike Bradley

  www.techpubs.com

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