Problem with fewerfloatpages, lscape and specific eps include about fmitex-fewerfloatpages

[FrankMittelbach]

one could think I have quoted very rude words :-)

[FrankMittelbach]

This month I read in tugboat about your new package fewerfloatpages. I immediately started using it and I'm happy with it so far.

good. the issue you list is truely weird but it has nothing to do with your figures just doing

\begin{landscape}
	\begin{figure}
  XXX
	\end{figure}
\end{landscape}

triggers it, so it has to do with the page being not full enough.

The isssue is that lscape remembers the definition of @makefcolumn when it is loaded and uses that one. But makefewerfloatpages changes the definition because during a clearpage it has to change behavior. But it does so only after begin document (for a number of reasons) so basically lscape uses the saved (wrong) definition. As a result we get the float unraveled when it shouldn't be unraveled (you can see this if you use the option "trace") and it is sort of discussed in the package documentation.

Immediate workaround: use explicitly [p] for your figure so that it is never been unraveled.
As to how we can make the packages work together I have to discuss this with @davidcarlisle how to best make this happen.

[davidcarlisle]

I suppose we could just move

\let\LS@makefcolumn=\@makefcolumn

from the top level into the definition of \landscape ?

[FrankMittelbach]

Am 28.05.20 um 17:03 schrieb David Carlisle:

I suppose we could just move ***@***.******@***.***| from the top level into the definition of |\landscape| ?

that should do it and is probably better than me trying to overwrite \LS@makefcolumn at begin document

[paultjevdh]

I understand nothing of what you're talking about, but I'm very glad it was picked up so fast.
Thanks very much, also for the [p] workaround. Works for me.

Best regards,
Paul van der Hulst

[FrankMittelbach]

Given that there is a workaround for now (using [p]) I'll close this here. It will be addressed in lscape which will see a new release in fall.