lOn Fri, May 03, 2002 at 04:28:16PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
> | And the explanation (if I'm not mistaken) is as follows:
> | The \begin{figure} causes TeX to go into restricted vertical mode, so
> | the space after \begin{figure} is ignored.
> | The space after the 'x' appears right before a \par command
> | (which is generated by the \end{figure} macro), and therefore,
> | it is ignored by TeX.
>
> And you manually had to inspect the latex implementation of this
> environment to determine that this was safe...
No this is true for (almost?) all environment.
We do not put % chars when we write, for example,
\begin{abstract}
\end{abstract}
> bette to use the '%' imho.
No. See above.
Also, I bet that there is no latex book that says you should use % in floats.
