Bug#388592: Listings does not wrap long floats

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

Joachim Breitner <nomeata@debian.org> wrote:

> Hi Frank,
>
> Am Dienstag, den 26.09.2006, 12:27 +0200 schrieb Frank Küster:
>> > A minimal example is attached.
>> 
>> I cannot reproduce this here.  In my setup, the lines in your example
>> are never wrapped.  Maybe you have a locally changed listings.cfg
>> somewhere?  This is how I get line breaking:
>
> sorry for not being clear: the bug report is about page wrapping, not
> line wrapping. I attached the output of your example. The float on page
> 2 is only on page two, although it is too large. The non-float listing
> on page three continues on page four.

Err, that's natural.  No float in any LaTeX document (and probably any
TeX or ConTeXt document, too) is wrapped to the following page.  Page
wrapping contradicts the definition of a float in LaTeX.  

I see that there might be circumstances where something like this is
desirable, but how that should be accomplished depends so much on the
particular document that I cannot even think of a proper specification,
which would be needed before we can consider submitting a wishlist bug
(to the LaTeX team? To the pdftex people?).

Maybe all you need is captions for a non-floating listing?

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)