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From: uunet!steinmetz!macbeth!hallett@seismo.CSS.GOV (Hallett)
Date: 9 Jul 87 11:42:37 GMT
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY

In article <22857@sun.uucp> sun!klein@seismo.CSS.GOV (Mike Klein) writes:
>
>Writing technical papers and so on, I often need to be able to force figures
>to float to the {top,bottom} of the next available page.

What you ask is not possible in WORD 3 (or any other current WYSIWYG
system -- I discount WriteNow's version of graphics since they are not
true figure environments, just embedded PICT's or bitmaps).  What you
really need for this is a WYSIWYG TeX or LaTeX.  Sigh, one doesn't
exist, but you may find either TeXtures or MacTeX good for this
anyway.  I would recommend MacTeX just because its version of LaTeX is
out of beta-test.

If you really need WYSIWYG, then try WriteNow.  That is the only word
processor I have seen that has something even resembling floating
figures. 

Best of luck,

Jeffrey A. Hallett               (hallett@ge-crd.arpa   hallett@desdemona.uucp)
Software Technology Program
General Electric Corporate Research and Development

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