Re: Complex layout question

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:

>Hi all, I have a LARGE (we're talking about the hundred
>scale) number of floats I would like to distribute across a
>document. These are paired (a table and a figure). The
>layout that results from coupling them side by side doesn't
>satisfy me, so I was looking for a different approach. I
>would like them to be distributed across the pages by
>placing the tables at the top left and the figure at the
>bottom right, text flowing around them. Since there is a
>very large number of floats, I would like this placement to
>be automatic: "From now on, do this until you run out of
>text/floats"
>  
>
the text flowing around is is beyond current tex (fyi: this is one of the things we hav ein mind with the lua extensions combined with karl skoupy's arbitary par shape handling; too long term for your thesis) 

so, let's see what other options are there. 

- side by side is still an option: move them partially into the outer margins (details.pdf shows how to do this) 

- put two/three of them per page, using the postponing mechanism, that way you probably don't run into memory problems 

- or use a very narrow layout (wide page) and put all graphic in the margin area 

(i can help with setting up those layouts if needed) 

Hans 


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