[rfc-i] Should figures float?

mellon at fugue.com (Ted Lemon) Sat, 12 July 2014 02:10 UTC

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Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 22:10:43 -0400
Subject: [rfc-i] Should figures float?
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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.