Re: [docbook] DocBook5: missing @float in figure?

[Thomas Schraitle <tom_schr@web.de>]

Hi,

On Freitag, 4. Januar 2008, Jirka Kosek wrote:
> Thomas Schraitle wrote:
> > a few minutes ago I discovered that the float attribute is not
> > available in figure in DocBook5. Is this an oversight?
> >
> > See:
> > [1]  http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/figure.html
> > [2]  http://www.docbook.org/tdg5/en/html/figure.html
>
> AFAIK float was removed in favor of floatstyle attribute. Once you set
> floatstyle it means that you want floating figure and it doesn't not
> make sense to specify this once more using float="1".

Thanks, Jirka. That makes sense. :)

Maybe someone can insert a small hint into TDG5 about this? I think that 
makes it a bit easier for users coming from DocBook4.


Thanks,
Tom

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Thomas Schraitle