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From: "Johannes Hüsing" <hannes@ruhrau.de>
Subject: Re: Wrap-around.
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 20:08:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030626180827.GB639@ruhrau.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200306261253.03844.john@wexfordpress.com>

John Culleton <john@wexfordpress.com> [Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 06:53:03PM CEST]:
> Context will place figures right or left. However Context will not AFAIK fit 
> text to an irregular illustration, or around an arc etc. TheTeXbook describes 
> a very tedious command:
> 
> \parshape 
> (p101)
> which could allow one to fit the lines to an illustration, arc etc. by hand. 
> But the typesetter must calculate the distances beforehand.
> 
> Is there a higher level solution in Context? 

There is a MetaFun solution in section 10.5 of the MetaFun book as of Jan 9th,
2002.

Greetings


Johannes
-- 
Johannes Hüsing   There is something fascinating about science. One gets
hannes@ruhrau.de  such wholesale returns of conjecture from such a 
                  trifling investment of fact.                Mark Twain

  reply	other threads:[~2003-06-26 18:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-26 16:53 Wrap-around John Culleton
2003-06-26 18:08 ` Johannes Hüsing [this message]
2003-06-26 22:58   ` Wrap-around John Culleton

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