Robert M. Franz (RMF) wrote:
Hi anon

anon k wrote:

it eliminates problems from Word's shoddy text
flow algorithms that routinely ram illustrations into the margins and
separate them from their captions.


If you don't need the illustrations to float behind/before the text
layer (i.e., it suffices to have an illustration in its own paragraph
and the caption in the following paragraph), you can easily instruct
Word to never separate these. And the illustration layout will be
rock-solid that way.

[Yes, you will have to manually paginate in the end if you cannot live
with some empty areas on the bottom of pages, but then, if you cannot,
maybe LaTeX _is_ better indeed; of course, if you do that, you wouldn't
want to separate the text and the graphics at all, I reckon.]

HTH
Robert

You're right, in this case, the illustrations don't need to float.

But because several illustrations will be referred to in multiple
chapters, I'd prefer in this case to put all of them into a completely
separate document so that the reader doesn't need to look too hard to
find them, and to avoid duplicating them without need. This will also
allow them to be easily diverted for printing on separate paper stock
and on a different printer.

I'm honestly surprised that Word isn't set up to easily insert
cross-references to a caption in a separate document. (I'm using Word
XP by the way - not sure if that matters in this case.)

It also became evident today that Word's pagination doesn't have a
provision to automatically insert blank pages to fill out the last text
quire before the illustration quire begins. But a manual repagination
will deal with that when the time comes.

I guess this just isn't the way Microsoft thinks books should be made
these days.