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From: ascott@gara.une.oz.au (Tony Scott STPG)
Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.text.tex
Subject: latex floats clearpage or newpage
Keywords: latex floats
Message-ID: <4455@gara.une.oz.au>
Date: 29 Oct 90 03:11:55 GMT
Organization: University of New England, Armidale, Australia
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n preparing my thesis I need to leave some clear pages in the middle
of text to put spectra on. I can do this with either \newpage or
\clearpage. Both of these simply see the command and without filling
the page to the end gives me a new page. This leaves huge gaps in the
processed text. How can this be resolved?.

In a related matter using PiCTeX to draw chemical structures is great,
slow but great. Sometimes TeXs main pool filss if there are too many
structures on one page. The structures are usually placed in blocks of
text called schemes. I have hacked the figure macro to perform the
placement etc for a scheme macro, ie it floats is labelled etc etc.
To get around the full main pool I can place a \clearpage just befor
the offending scheme. The result is the same as above-- huge gaps in
the processed text.

Can LaTeX be made to fill the current page first and then dump the
scheme using the \clearpage. Of course this can be manually done by
moving text around by hand, but with the sophistication of TeX it
surprises me that it doesn't or can't do this automatically.

Am I asking too much??

thanks in advance.
tony scott ascott@gara.une.oz.au