Re: Floating around figures

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 09:31 PM 9/27/2002 +0200, =?iso-8859-2?Q?Martin_Kola=F8=EDk?= wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I want to typeset figure (e.g. using
>\placefigure[left]{none}{\externalfigure[fig]}) inside a paragraph (of
>course, on the left side) and I want to place the figure slightly lower,
>saying two or three lines below the start of parahraph. For example:
>
>Paragraph paragraph Paragraph paragraph
>paragraph paragraph paragraph paragraph
>paragraph paragraph paragraph paragraph
>           paragraph paragraph paragraph
>  fig fig  paragraph paragraph paragraph
>  fig fig  paragraph paragraph paragraph
>           paragraph paragraph paragraph
>paragraph paragraph paragraph paragraph
>paragraph paragraph paragraph paragraph
>paragraph paragraph end.
>
>How to do it?

this feature will probably go into the columnsets mechanism (some day)

for the moment you have to do it manually:

\startbuffer
\placefigure[left]{}{}
\stopbuffer

some text and after word where break is wanted \getbuffer and go on and on 
and on

Hans
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