[XeTeX] too many unprocessesed floats

[Jens Bakker]

Dear Ulrike Fischer,

Thank you very much for analyzing and explaining the problem. This is  
very usefull for me.

With best wishes,
Jens Bakker


Am 24.02.2010 um 14:38 schrieb Ulrike Fischer:

> Am Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:20:17 +0100 schrieb Jens Bakker:
>
>> Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
>
>> At some point, when I wrote a new marginal note,
>> I got the following error:
>>
>> LateX Error: Too many unprocessed floats
>>
>> See LateX manual or LateX Companion for explanation.
>>
>>
>> May anybody know if there could be a solution?
>
> Well LaTeX can store only a restricted number of floats.
> \marginpar's are floats and you are using a lot of \\ which means
> that all \marginpars are in one paragraph and so you are overflowing
> the available ressources for floats.
>
> Solutions are:
> 1.  Divide your text in more but smaller paragraphs, that means use
> less  \\ commands and more \par or empty lines.
>
> 2. Use the package marginnote and \marginnote instead of \marginpar.
>
>
> -- 
> Ulrike Fischer
>
>
>
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