From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/50305 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: The ultimate (?) float problem Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 12:02:31 +0200 Message-ID: <4A094937.2080806@wxs.nl> References: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1242122619 11426 80.91.229.12 (12 May 2009 10:03:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 10:03:39 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue May 12 12:03:29 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1M3opa-0005H7-S0 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 May 2009 12:03:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 725CF1FF10; Tue, 12 May 2009 12:03:26 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 08779-03-5; Tue, 12 May 2009 12:02:45 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D204A1FEFA; Tue, 12 May 2009 12:02:44 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D59FC1FEFA for ; Tue, 12 May 2009 12:02:42 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 08779-03-4 for ; Tue, 12 May 2009 12:02:32 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter2-til.mf.surf.net (filter2-til.mf.surf.net [194.171.167.218]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8036B1FEEE for ; Tue, 12 May 2009 12:02:32 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by filter2-til.mf.surf.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id n4CA2VO3031881 for ; Tue, 12 May 2009 12:02:31 +0200 Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.9e) with ESMTP id 9186-1840426 for ; Tue, 12 May 2009 12:02:31 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) In-Reply-To: X-Originating-IP: 10.100.1.100 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=83.247.100.17; country=NL; region=15; city=Almelo; latitude=52.3500; longitude=6.6667; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.3500,6.6667&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 223717088 - f8087d83fe35 - 20090512 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 194.171.167.218 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:50305 Archived-At: Piotr Kopszak wrote: > Dear all, > > I am close to give up, but maybe there is a solution... I have a book > to typeset literally peppered with hundreds of little drawings which > are supposed to appear irregularly surrounded by text flowing around > them on all sides. > -------------------------------- > |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | > |xxxxx-----xxxxxxxxxxxxxx| > |xxxxx| |xxxxxx----xxxx | > |xxxxx|__|xxxxxx| |xxxx| > |xxxxxxxxxxxxxx |__|xxxx| > |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx| > -------------------------------- > > I naively imagine that should not be that hard to implement ;) Since > we already have overlays it's no problem to place images in arbitrary > places. It only remains to drill white holes in the text to make room > for them. What about such procedure: > > 1. While building the line TeX checks if there is any overlay ahead. > 2 if so, it puts empty hbox of the overlay width when it reaches > necessary distance from the edge. > 3. and does so for the number of lines which equal overlay height. > > Of course that leaves aside the problem of justification and without > justification such page would probably look very ugly (I dare not to > think if hz optimization, which I really got used to, would still > work). > Is there still hope I could stay with ConTeXt this time as well? one can have parshapes in tex but not that complex as you want ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________