[comp.text.tex] questions about floats in LaTeX

amhastings@ucdavis.edu (Alan Hastings) (02/12/91)

Two questions about floats:

1)  For a document I am working on, I needed a third float type
beyond figure and table.  Why, when the Latex file says that the numbers should
be powers of 2, does the number attached to this float have to be 3 (on
TeXtures)?

2)  This float is to be used for textual material.  Is there a way
I can have it split  across pages?  If this is possible, I would also
appreciate help spliting a minipage (more precisely the boxedminipage.sty
environment) across pages as well.

Thanks.

alan hastings
amhastings@ucdavis.edu
des, ucd, davis, ca 95616