Re: [docbook] Float and floatstyle?

[Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>]

Norman Walsh wrote:

> For DocBook V5, I'm tempted to suggest that we discard float. Having
> both attributes can lead to contradictions:
> 
>   float="0" floatstyle="top-of-page"
> 
> The only downside I can see to removing float is that it will require
> people to specify some sort of style (e.g., "normal") for floats where
> they aren't used to specifying a style at all.

I like this proposal. I think that it is just matter of taste to use 
floatstyle="normal" rather then float="1", and that having both 
attributes is quite confusing. For the same reason, when I customized 
DocBook I usualy removed float attribute and left only floatstyle here.

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