Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!jarthur!sif.claremont.edu From: dhosek@sif.claremont.edu (Hosek, Donald A.) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: lines between floats and text in LaTeX Message-ID: <8756@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> Date: 30 Sep 90 18:59:28 GMT Sender: news@jarthur.Claremont.EDU Reply-To: dhosek@sif.claremont.edu Organization: Harvey Mudd College Lines: 60 In article <28404.9009291614@cameron.ecs.soton.ac.uk>, S.P.Q.Rahtz@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) writes... >A colleague asks me the question given below. I can see that it is not >going to be obvious to find out whether there is some following text >on the page when you are in a float, so before I start hacking, has >anyone already done this? or knows that it is impossible? >>From: Stephen Adams >Date: Tue, 25 Sep 90 20:23:53 BST >Is there a style to draw lines between floats and running >text on a page where both occur? >I have seen some latex documents with this but they could >have been produced by the punter putting a line in manually >at the end of every float. It's possible but has to be done at the output level if you want something like: float --- float text or float --- float --- text --- float It's largely a matter of adjusting the page-building routines to insert the rules. (Not all that difficult... maybe an afternoon's work for someone with a passing knowledge of the LaTeX OTR... hmm, maybe it is all that difficult after all) -dh --- Don Hosek TeX, LaTeX, and Metafont support, consulting dhosek@ymir.claremont.edu installation and production work. dhosek@ymir.bitnet Free Estimates. uunet!jarthur!ymir Phone: 714-625-0147 finger dhosek@ymir.claremont.edu for more info