Hello,
We're going to recode the existing float support so that floats are
really insets (correct me if I'm wrong). Currently, we have a bunch of
hardcoded floats, like footnote, marginnote, table, wide table,
figure, wide figure, algorithms... And we will probably add others
(ERS killers, for example).
It occured to me that, since floats all share similar properties, they
could be defined in textclasses, so that adding new ones is easy. This
could be done with a FloatStyle...End construct similar to the
following:
FloatStyle Footnote
LatexName footnote
LatexType command
AllowCaption 0
LabelString foot
# these are bogus values, but probably make sense
LabelSep xxx
ParSkip 0.4
TopSep 1.3
BottomSep 0.7
ParSep 0.7
Align Block
AlignPossible Block, Left
Font
Size Small
EndFont
End
FloatStyle Table
LatexName table
LatexType environment
AllowCaption 1
CaptionLabelString Table
LabelString table
# these are bogus values, but probably make sense
LabelSep xxx
ParSkip 0.4
TopSep 1.3
BottomSep 0.7
ParSep 0.7
Align Block
AlignPossible Block, Left
End
The list of floats would of course be separate from the list of
layouts. The values for font and skips would be default values, that
layouts inside of the floats could of course override. The only
problem I see is to make sure that we can generate the float submenu
correctly (with i18n, shortcuts, etc.).
I think something like this could simplify greatly the code. Opinions?
JMarc
