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* The ultimate (?) float problem
@ 2009-05-12  9:22 Piotr Kopszak
  2009-05-12 10:02 ` Hans Hagen
  2009-05-12 10:28 ` luigi scarso
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 25+ messages in thread
From: Piotr Kopszak @ 2009-05-12  9:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
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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?

Many thanks for any ideas in advance

Piotr
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2009-05-12  9:22 The ultimate (?) float problem Piotr Kopszak
2009-05-12 10:02 ` Hans Hagen
2009-05-12 10:16   ` Piotr Kopszak
2009-05-12 10:44     ` Hans Hagen
2009-05-12 10:28 ` luigi scarso
2009-05-12 11:28   ` Piotr Kopszak
2009-05-12 11:46     ` luigi scarso
2009-05-12 13:03       ` Piotr Kopszak
2009-05-12 13:11         ` luigi scarso
2009-05-12 13:18           ` Piotr Kopszak
2009-05-12 13:32             ` Wolfgang Schuster
2009-05-12 13:45               ` Piotr Kopszak
2009-05-12 14:16               ` luigi scarso
2009-05-14  9:17                 ` Piotr Kopszak
2009-05-12 13:29       ` ppchtex color Alan BRASLAU
2009-05-12 17:57         ` Hans Hagen
2009-05-12 18:07         ` Hans Hagen
2009-05-12 18:17         ` Hans Hagen
2009-05-12 20:45         ` Hans Hagen
2009-05-12 21:30         ` Alan BRASLAU
2009-05-12 21:53           ` Hans Hagen
2009-05-12 21:51         ` Alan BRASLAU
2009-05-13  8:33           ` Hans Hagen
2009-05-13  8:55             ` Alan BRASLAU
2009-05-13 11:25               ` Hans Hagen

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