[texhax] controlling table locations

[Thomas Schneider]

Reinhard:

> Tom, did you ever try my suggestion?
> 
>    \makeatletter
>      \def\fps at table{h}
>    \makeatother
> 
> It works like a charm here.  For tables which are supposed to use
> the default value defined above, just remove the optional argument.

I hadn't tried it.  So I tried it just now in my main document.  In
that document the tables are currently set to 'h'.  Inserting the
above did nothing (as expected).  Changing the 'h' to 'p' did nothing
...

I don't know the makeatletter catcode stuff - 
(yes,
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/8351/what-do-makeatletter-and-makeatother-do
but I have other things to do !!)

It seems to me that a pure LaTeX solution is cleaner ... and it's
definitely easier to figure out what it does!

Tom

  Thomas D. Schneider, Ph.D.
  Senior Investigator
  National Institutes of Health
  National Cancer Institute
  Center for Cancer Research
  Gene Regulation and Chromosome Biology Laboratory
  Molecular Information Theory Group
  Frederick, Maryland  21702-1201
  schneidt at mail.nih.gov
  http://schneider.ncifcrf.gov (current link)
  http://alum.mit.edu/www/toms (permanent link)