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[docbook-apps] Intelligent (Latex-like) placement of figures
- From: Steffen Glückselig <glueckselig at gungfu dot de>
- To: docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 15:28:42 +0100
- Subject: [docbook-apps] Intelligent (Latex-like) placement of figures
Hello,
I have not done much with Latex, so maybe I am all wrong, but from what I've picked up it seems Latex places
figures intelligently on a page. Currently I sometimes get quite big gaps between text and a figure if the
figure does not fit on a page:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,
consectetuer adipiscing elit.
----------------------------------new page
<figure>
Nullam erat felis, pulvinar
ultrices, facilisis quis,
rhoncus porttitor,
...
If I am not mistaken Latex would pull the text from the second page up to the first, filling the gap.
Is it possible to get something like this with docbook? I thought about using float
(http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/FigureFloats.html) with something like float="start" (would it be
'start'?).
best regards
Steffen