> > 2. Most journal style files (few issue classes) do include extra features > > for handling tables, figure captions, references, sublabelling > > equations. Much of this can be handled by existing packages, such as > > my natbib. > > Hmmm...how does natbib come into this? Sometimes the caption should > come before the table, sometimes after---one has to code presentation, > not content. It's things like this I was thinking of. How can natbib > (in its present form) do this? Natbib cannot do this at all. I was talking about other packages of mine (which I have never publically released). Here natbib was only meant as one example of an additional package to meet journals' special requests, in this case, author-year citation. There has been a great deal said about my natbib package in this discussion. I shall send out a short overview of it in a following message, for those readers who have never used it. Patrick ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Patrick W. Daly Tel. [+49] 5556-979-279 Max-Planck-Institut fuer Aeronomie Fax. [+49] 5556-979-240 Max-Planck-Str. 2 D-37191 Katlenburg-Lindau Internet: [log in to unmask] Germany -----------------------------------------------------------------------------