Re: getting out of LaTeX

["Brian M. Scott"]

On 30 Aug 2006 16:05:53 -0700, "Peter T. Daniels"
<grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
<news:1156979153.900785.217920@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
in sci.lang:

> Ruud Harmsen wrote:

>> 30 Aug 2006 11:09:24 -0700: "Peter T. Daniels"
>> <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx>: in sci.lang:

[...]

>>>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.

>> You mean the table does not follow the flow of the text? It is not
>> part of the rest of the text? There is not a certain paragraph of
>> non-table text that always precedes that table, and another such
>> paragraph that always follows the table? That's what you mean by
>> float, I suppose? Otherwise I just don't understand how a situation
>> like what you describe could ever occur.

> I have read the above paragraph several times and I cannot tell what
> you mean.

Ruud is apparently accustomed to tables that are anchored at
a fixed point in relation to the text proper and is asking
whether you mean something else.  Which of course you do.

[...]

Brian