Re: [docbook] Float and floatstyle?

[Dave Pawson <davep@dpawson.co.uk>]

On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 09:09 -0400, Norman Walsh wrote:
> Several elements in DocBook have had a float attribute ("0" | "1") for
> a long time. Not too long ago, we added floatstyle (CDATA) to several
> of them.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Thoughts?

+1

Nice to get rid of potential contradictions.

DaveP