Re: [help-texinfo] floats are unbreakable

[Akim Demaille]

, 8 Apr 2004 11:51:19 -0400")
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[Sorry for the delays, I have suffered sysadmin issues.]

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>>> "Karl" == Karl Berry <address@hidden> writes:

 > Hi Akim,

Hi Karl,

Sorry for the delays: one week vacation :)

 >     Will there be a means to use @captions outside floats?  

 > I'm not sure what that would mean.  Right now, @caption is intimately
 > associated with floats.

I was wondering whether there would be a means to have counters
independent of floats.

 >     Or will there be breakable floats?

 > I don't think this is implementable.

OK.


 > How about an empty float after the long example?  I haven't checked if
 > the output looks reasonable, but it's the only thing that comes to mind.

 > @example
 > ... pages and pages of text ...
 > ... BTW, maybe @verbatim[include] would be easier? ...
 > @end example
 > @float mylongexample
 > @caption{This is the caption for my long example.}
 > @end float

Unfortunately that leaves additional spaces in TeX outputs.  There are
none in HTML nor text.  I don't know for XML.

Can these spaces be killed?

This is basically the service I am looking for, something that would
allow leaving some captions for @example, and getting a table of these
captions, plus an easy means to xref them.

Something like

@c mycaption(CATEGORY, NODE, CAPTION)
@c ==================================
@macro mycaption{category, node, caption}
@float \category\, \node\
@caption{\caption\}
@end float
@end macro



BTW, these are the visible changes in my document in text.  Was this
meant?


--- /home/akim/www/compil/assignments.txt       2004-04-08 14:42:55.000000000 
+0200
+++ assignments.txt     2004-04-20 16:28:44.000000000 +0200
@@ -182,15 +182,15 @@
 
    ---------- Footnotes ----------
 
-   (1) <http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~akim/compil/assignments.html>.
+   (1) `http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~akim/compil/assignments.html'.
 
-   (2) <http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~akim/compil/assignments.split>.
+   (2) `http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~akim/compil/assignments.split'.
 
-   (3) <http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~akim/compil/assignments.pdf>.
+   (3) `http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~akim/compil/assignments.pdf'.
 
-   (4) <http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~akim/compil/assignments.txt>.
+   (4) `http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~akim/compil/assignments.txt'.
 
-   (5) <http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~akim/compil/assignments.info>.
+   (5) `http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~akim/compil/assignments.info'.

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