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From: Douglas.Miller@viccol.edu.au (Douglas Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: latex floats clearpage or newpage
Message-ID: <6457.272c7f6a@csv.viccol.edu.au>
Date: 30 Oct 90 00:13:45 GMT
References: <4455@gara.une.oz.au>
Organization: Computer Services, Victoria College, Melbourne
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In article <4455@gara.une.oz.au>, ascott@gara.une.oz.au (Tony Scott STPG)
writes:

> 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?.

Something like:

   \begin{figure}[p]
   \vspace{<dimen>}
   \end{figure}

?

> 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. 

But this is what floats are for.  \clearpage is for doing a clear page.
Surely the answer to your problem is to get access to a TeX with a bigger
pool size?