Changes by: Brian Emre Aydemir (baydemir at cis.upenn.edu)
Date: 2003-08-01 02:31:10 -0700 (Fri, 01 Aug 2003)
Revision: 4801
Log message:
A little hacking on the M-paper ::
Fixed some formatting inconsistencies and moved some figure
declarations around so that they are declared in the ``correct''
locations (right after the paragraph in which they are first
referenced, according to the LNCS style).
Of course, having adhered to that little bit of the LNCS style, I
go ahead and override their figure placement policy in m-paper.tex
(look for the bit of code tagged with EMRE). Personally, I
dislike figures appearing in the middle of a page. My policy may
have an added bonus of shortening the paper slightly (by 1/2 a
page at some point) over the LNCS default.
Observation: The placement of figures 4--7 is hit-or-miss. Either
you get something reasonable, or two of them end up on their own
page and waste _a lot_ of space.
Another observation: if you delete the blank line before every
$$...$$ environment and ensure that out of figures 4--7, 3 of them
end up on the same page, you can get the paper down to 24 pages.
I'm not quite sure why so much white space appears before these
environments...
I think that if you want to shorten the paper any further,
probably more text will have to be cut (intro, summary, related
work?). If I get a chance, maybe I'll try to come up with more
ideas in the morning.