Chris Rowley writes: > I forgive Sebastian Rahtz!! (Well for one thing, anyway > ... there's still hyperref:-) ) you obviously haven't looked at passivetex yet > for never having supplied us humble coders with what he claims is `the > obvious algorithm for float positioning (including spanning floats)'. its from the same family as the Carlisle algorithm for word counting. it goes WHILE it_doesnt_look_nice() continue END implementation of "it_doesnt_look_nice" is in local libraries > Not necessarily help in designing this wonderful algorithm but in > formulating, or finding in the literature, the rules and heuristics for > judging whether a float placement is acceptable and/or good. one data point you have to consider is "what the picture looks like". it makes a difference whether it is a line diagram or a photograph, for instance, and how dark it looks. I suspect this "floating silver bullet" doesn't exist. Shock, Horror! Was Knuth wrong in his entire initial premise that computers could solve typography? You have to wonder about a man who rates Georges Perec over Patrick O'Brian. Sebastian