From: luigi scarso <luigi.scarso@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: interesting LaTeX package for flowing text
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:23:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTik4JZt-M-kWN3sX4QN3giLdzNa=+Z1COL+zdmJ5@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=VLsBOR=rQx+63pObfYNuUa-DV-RXenvBQV09_@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Piotr Kopszak <kopszak@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, I delved pretty deep in columns but could not find a solution for
> a problem I finally decided to tackle with Scribus.
> I have text pepperred with tiny drawings which are surrounded by text
> on all sides. Sometimes as much as 8 drawings per page in changing
> locations. The only, rather painstaking, solution is to divide all
> text areas into boxes on layers BUT each box has to have the text of
> exact length input manually, which in my opinion is completely
> unfeasible. Well, unless you want to spend couple of years.
> Fortunately, it was the only case when I had to give up ConTeXt in
> almost ten years.
I don't know if it's your case
but shapepar (search on ctan) maybe can help.
Anyway, it's an idea to build a module to integrate scribus into context
--
luigi
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-11 13:54 Piotr Kopszak
2010-08-11 15:54 ` luigi scarso
2010-08-11 21:54 ` Piotr Kopszak
2010-08-11 22:30 ` Hans Hagen
2010-08-12 7:24 ` luigi scarso
2010-08-12 8:17 ` Piotr Kopszak
2010-08-12 8:23 ` luigi scarso [this message]
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