[rfc-i] Should figures float?

[julian.reschke at gmx.de (Julian Reschke)]

On 2014-07-12 04:10, Ted Lemon wrote:
> On Jul 11, 2014, at 2:40 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill at hallambaker.com> wrote:
>> Doing that in HTML is non trivial. It might be possible with some CSS magic like putting in a control to make a soft break and dump out all pending figures before a section break. But it might not be possible at all without writing a custom text formatter for the PDF output.
>
> But HTML isn't paginated, so there's no reason to ever do it--you'd just do it where it appears in the XML.

HTML *can* be paginated. It happens upon printing, but there also have 
been browser experiments with paged rendering on screens (flip the page 
instead to scroll...).

Best regards, Julian