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From: spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz)
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Subject: Re: Floating figures
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Date: 15 Mar 91 11:27:56 GMT
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In-reply-to: robin@castle.ed.ac.uk's message of 14 Mar 91 10:31:00 GMT

In article <9162@castle.ed.ac.uk> robin@castle.ed.ac.uk (R C Smith) writes:

   \begin{figure}[h]

   I want to know exactly where they appear as I use a \special to include
   graphics in the  output, but the area where I put the picture is not the
   same when I left the space for it....very annoying.

   Ideally I would like a macro which would also allow the special to float
   to the same page as the figure has floated to..

I find this rather confusing. surely if you say
 \begin{figure}
 \special{....}
 \end{figure}
then the special information will go wherever the figure goes? how can
it not? and if you want a picture HERE RIGHT HERE NO MESSING, why are
you using the figure environment?

Sebastian
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