Paul,
> What about a simplistic solution, in which you have a flag to 1) change
> regardless of floats - it's your problem or 2) not change if floats are
> present? After all, you, the writer are putting out floats. They don't
> come from the Land of Floats. If you want to change dimensions, you either
> set the flag to force dimensional change or you don't put out the floats.
> As I say, simplistic.
that is an approach and it may solve some problems but not the problem that
this OR is intending to tackle and resolve: multicolumn layout with flexible
float handling
so using an interface that says "don't do that then" isn't really what I'm
looking for
frank