I'm looking in Section C.9 of the LaTeX manual (pages 199 and 200). LaTeX defines a few macros to control the float placement algorithm, namely, \topfraction
, \bottomfraction
, and \textfraction
. The macro \topfraction
, for example, defines "The maximum fraction of the page that can be occupied by floats at the top of the page." The text of the manual is not clear as to what the "page" is for these macros.
My question is this: is the denominator of these fractions the length \paperheight
, the length \textheight
, or something else?
Thanks in advance.