On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 06:37:11PM +0200, J?rgen Spitzm?ller wrote: > Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > Juergen> What about "span all columns" because that is what they > > Juergen> actually are for. > > > > Does this mean that it should be disabled when in one-column mode? > > This is limiting from latex point of view, but it seems better in > > terms of intuitiveness. Are there many people out there who like to > > mark their floats as narrow/wide although they are in a one-column > > document (probably because the doc will become two-columns later)? > > Don't know. I think it is o.k. when it is allowed, since it does not harm and
The harm is that users who don't know latex will be confused by the outcome. I suggest that selecting wide float should disable the "here" and "bottom" buttons, but add an "expert mode" button (either in the float dialog, on in the preferences dialog) that will allow enabling them.
