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In article <1156979244.866509.13580@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> "Peter T.
Daniels" <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Dik T. Winter wrote:
> > In article <1156961364.433261.214520@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> "Peter
> > T. Daniels" <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > ...
> > > I guess you've never tried to put a table at the top of a page where
> > > the preceding page doesn't happen to end at the end of a paragraph.
> > >
> > > A blank 1/3 or 1/4 foot-of-a-page is not acceptable, so the page
> > > preceding a table needs to be filled up with the beginning of a
> > > paragraph. and the last line of that paragraph must be right-justified,
> > > so simply throwing in an extra paragraph-break won't do. (And your
> > > trick of tab + linebreak before the paragraph mark will make the page
> > > one line short, which is also not acceptable.)
> >
> > Tsk. I would think this quite a bit easier in TeX/LaTeX.
>
> It couldn't possibly be easier in LaTeX than in FrameMaker.
I was comparing TeX/LaTex with Word, not with FrameMaker.
At our institute there once was a controversy about whether to use
FrameMaker or TeX/LaTeX for publications. There were quite a few
FrameMaker style sheets floating around, and we had a lot of SGI's
(that was supported). Ultimately TeX/LaTeX did win because of better
portability. Upgrading the SGI systems was difficult because many
times FrameMaker was not yet available for the new system. On the
other hand, the upgrade was needed because it contained things that
were needed. And we had quite a few of Sun's, for which FrameMaker
support was abysmal. TeX/LaTeX had no such problems. You just
recompile and there you go. Currently the (vast) majority of the
systems is Linux, especially amongst the scientific workers.
--
dik t. winter, cwi, kruislaan 413, 1098 sj amsterdam, nederland, +31205924131
home: bovenover 215, 1025 jn amsterdam, nederland; http://www.cwi.nl/~dik/
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