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From: hucker@ecn.purdue.edu (Scott Hucker)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Placement of Figures and Tables
Keywords: figure table positioning commands
Message-ID: <1990Aug10.225012.23088@ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 10 Aug 90 22:50:12 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
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This is a LaTeX/TeX question. (I haven't been
able to answer it with my LaTex references.)

I would like to know if anybody has seen or 
done the following:  A new positioning option 
for use with tables and figures.  Lets call
it 's' for Sometimes.  A figure that was
done as
	\begin{figure}[s]
     	...stuff...
	\end{figure}
would be placed as a \begin{figure}[h] if a 
"fancy" flag was true and place at the 
End of the Chapter if the
"fancy" flag was false.  (same thing with tables)

Reason for this: A document with lots of figures 
and tables could be previewed and proofed with 
those items located near their relevant text then
the final version could be generated with those
items pushed to the end where publishers might
want to find them. 

Ideas?? Comments?

Scott Hucker
hucker@gn.ecn.purdue.edu
Purdue University
Aerospace Department