[comp.text.tex] Floating environments in APS's REVTEX format?

ldl6737@blanc.usl.edu (Lafleur L Dwynn) (02/27/91)

Has anyone out there used the REVTEX format produced by the American Physical
Society (APS) for author-prepared compuscripts submitted for publication in
Physical Review?  If so, I have a couple of questions.  (I am relatively a
novice in TeX/LaTeX, having been actively using LaTeX for about a year now; thus
my questions may have obvious answers to the experts among us.)

(1)  When submitting manuscripts to Physical Review, figures and tables are
traditionally submitted on separate pages at the end of the manuscript.  In
REVTEX, hasn't APS accomplished this by completely redefining the \figure and
\table environments so that they no longer produce floating environments?

(2)  I find REVTEX convenient for all the other things it does (superscripted
citations, APS standard figure caption numbering, etc.).  If I wish to use
REVTEX for my other document production and I wish to include floating figures
and/or tables while using REVTEX, can I easily do so?  How?

I am also submitting these questions directly to APS, but I thought this topic
might be interesting to other physicists.  I will post answers I receive.
Thanks .


L. Dwynn Lafleur
Professor of Physics
The University of Southwestern Louisiana
Internet: lafleur@usl.edu