>>>>> "John" == John Weiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
John> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes writes:
>> 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:
John> [fine example snipped]
John> This is an idea I also mentioned, and some time ago. So
John> obviously I think it's a Fine Idea. :)
Sorry, I missed it at the time...
>> The list of floats would of course be separate from the list of
>> layouts.
John> Do you mean read in separately and applying to all classes? Or
John> will it still be parsed by the existing layout engine? Or some
John> combination?
Well, it would still be parsed by the layout engine. I just meant that
float styles should be clearly separated from paragraph styles.
JMarc
PS: btw, are these things a `style' (as the syntax of textclasses
suggests), a `layout' (as many of us, and the source, say), or an
`environment' (as the doc says, but which can be misleading for LaTeX
users)?
