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
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