[XeTeX] too many unprocessesed floats

[Wilfred van Rooijen]

Hi again,

Always remember the LaTeX-motto: if you have a problem, someone else has had it before, and a special package has been made in the meantime. The only problem is finding out which package does what you need :-))

Wilfred

--- On Thu, 25/2/10, Jens Bakker <jbakker at uni-bonn.de> wrote:

> From: Jens Bakker <jbakker at uni-bonn.de>
> Subject: Re: [XeTeX] too many unprocessesed floats
> To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms" <xetex at tug.org>
> Date: Thursday, 25 February, 2010, 7:57 PM
> 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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