Re: make page-float and span:

[Sebastian Rahtz <s.rahtz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Horst Kucharczyk writes:
 > 1. Is there any documentation on the page-float object?  Haven't found
in a word, "no". it makes a floating object, no more, no less, and
listens to the "span" characteristic (but does not obey it)

eg:

(element fig
 (make page-float
  (make display-group
   (make rule)
   (process-children-trim)
   (make rule))))

 > 2. Our basic layout needs three or two columns. Span: doesn't produce the
 > wanted result via the Tex backend in the simple-page-sequence with
 > page-n-columns: 3. (Make page-float ) seems a good work-around. Is there a
 > way to make spanning work 'directly'?

i am not sure i follow. what happens if you use

  page-n-columns: 3

? I'd expect this to work normally. i don't think page-float is what
you want. it always makes a single float object spanning the whole
page width. dont try and put a simple-page-sequence in it!

sebastian


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