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If you're referring back to specific figures at multiple places in the
text, you'll have to use plan #1. If a figure is referenced once (and -only-)
once, and you can keep it on the same page as the text reference, you can
get away with plan #2. (I've found that this most likely happens in books
done to the Information Mapping (TM) format)
Rick Lippincott
Eaton Semiconductor
Beverly, MA
rlippinc -at- bev -dot- etn -dot- com