Bug#790442: FTBFS with new LaTeX: Unknown float option `H'.

Martin Steghöfer martin at steghoefer.eu
Tue Sep 22 08:42:42 UTC 2015


tags 790442 + pending
thanks

Thanks for the fix, Ralph! I just backported it into the package.

Cheers,
Martin


Ralph Giles wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Jun 2015 11:32:43 -0400 Martin Michlmayr <tbm at hp.com> wrote:
>
>> You're using the "H" float option.  According to
>> https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Floats,_Figures_and_Captions
>> you need \usepackage{float} for that, but it seems simpler solution
>> is to replace it with "!h".
> Thanks for the report. We fixed this upstream by adding the package;
> we were using the [H] directive specifically in those two sections to
> keep the packet layout at the top of the section for easy reference.
>
> https://git.xiph.org/?p=theora.git;a=commitdiff;h=fbb275803696085225c310773474ef4dcf8a4528
>
> With the current source text, [!h] seems to work well enough, but [H]
> is more robust since we needed to be specific there at some point
> during development.
>
>   -r
>
>
>



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