Timeline for How to determine from the document body whether or not a page has a top float?
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| Mar 12, 2024 at 20:06 | vote | accept | B Legrand | ||
| Mar 11, 2024 at 12:18 | answer | added | B Legrand | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 10, 2024 at 17:06 | answer | added | David Carlisle | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 10, 2024 at 16:44 | comment | added | David Carlisle | what you can do is use \pdflastypos to see on the next run of latex if the first line is at the top of the page, and if not assume a float has been inserted and choose the correct code branch | |
| Mar 10, 2024 at 12:23 | comment | added | David Carlisle | consider \clearpage\iftopfloat{Yes}{No} after the clearpage there are no pending floats but you can not test at that point if later in the document there is a figure that floats to the top of this page. | |
| Mar 10, 2024 at 11:12 | comment | added | David Carlisle | you can't. Floats are added way after all macros in the document body have been evaluated. | |
| Mar 10, 2024 at 9:44 | history | asked | B Legrand | CC BY-SA 4.0 |