[XeTeX] too many unprocessesed floats

[Jens Bakker]

Hi Wilfred,

Thank you very much for your information, which is very usefull for  
me. The purpose of using the newline command so often was, that I want  
to  reproduce exactly the lines of a certain manuscript to facilitate  
the process of comparing the text with that of the manuscript once  
again while collating it with other versions. I also wanted to asign  
linenumbers to see if there are difficulties in using them, and I  
noticed that to begin a new paragraph with a skip between the new and  
the previous paragraph means, that to the resulting empty line there  
is a linenumber assigned.

To avoid this, i. e. to achieve that only lines with text and not  
empty lines are counted by linenumbers, I did not introduce new  
paragraphs which resulted in the respective problem that I could not  
solve. Now I enclosed every text which corresponds to a page in the  
mentioned manuscript in a \begin{linenumbers} end{linenumbers}  
environment and let the pagenumbering begin with \resetpagenumber once  
again in each instance.

With best wishes,
Jens Bakker




Am 25.02.2010 um 00:57 schrieb Wilfred van Rooijen:

> Hi Jens,
>
> A very good explanation about the nature of floats and how they are  
> processed can be found in the manual of the memoir class. The file  
> is called "memman.pdf" and should be somewhere in your latex  
> installation.
>
> In short, a float is an empty area whose location is decided by  
> latex after setting the surrounding text paragraphs. If latex cannot  
> find a suitable place for a float, it will append it to a list of  
> "unprocessed floats" which will ultimately all appear on separate  
> pages at the end of the document. If you have more than a certain  
> number of those unprocessed floats, latex will complain.
>
> Thus, the solution is to create more available spaces where floats  
> can be put. In your case, apparently you have very long paragraphs  
> and latex does not know where to reserve space for the notes. By  
> making smaller paragraphs you allow more potential "float locations"  
> and all should be well.
>
> As a rule, you should not use "\\" unless absolutely necessary.  
> Latex sets the text per paragraph, and "\\" will start a new line  
> but not a new paragraph (if I remember correctly) which means that  
> you get very long paragraphs, which are difficult to typeset. Again,  
> I think that the memoir manual has some details about the  
> differences between an empty line, \par, and \\.
>
> Cheers,
> Wilfred
>
> --- On Wed, 24/2/10, Ulrike Fischer <news3 at nililand.de> wrote:
>
>> From: Ulrike Fischer <news3 at nililand.de>
>> Subject: Re: [XeTeX] too many unprocessesed floats
>> To: xetex at tug.org
>> Date: Wednesday, 24 February, 2010, 10:38 PM
>> 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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