From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/8100 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Culleton Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Re[2]: \placefigure unpredicatable. Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 17:58:58 -0400 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <200205311758.58227.john@wexfordpress.com> References: <5.1.0.14.1.20020527222829.039d69d0@server-1> <5.1.0.14.1.20020528225017.034578f8@remote-1> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035398534 24784 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:42:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:42:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: Hans Hagen , Giuseppe Bilotta In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.1.20020528225017.034578f8@remote-1> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:8100 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:8100 On Tuesday 28 May 2002 04:50 pm, Hans Hagen wrote: > At 07:24 PM 5/28/2002 +0200, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: > >Monday, May 27, 2002 Hans Hagen wrote: > > > > > >HH> wait (or try) for columnsets, they are more robust and give you al lot > > of HH> control over floats > > > >What are we supposed to read to learn about columnsets? > > in a to be published manual -) > > [i'm currently implementing a series of multi column layouts so ...] > > Hans > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > f > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- What I (we) need is a facility to place a figure in a column and flow text around it, or place a figure in the column in the same position as a ``dropped cap''. And we need to have column balancing too :) -- John Culleton Able Indexers and Typesetters http://wexfordpress.com __________________________________________________ D O T E A S Y - "Join the web hosting revolution!" http://www.doteasy.com