interesting LaTeX package for flowing text

interesting LaTeX package for flowing text

[Piotr Kopszak]

Hello List,

Just came across this today. Haven't even tried it. Just wondering
whether it could be ported to ConTeXt at all.

http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/flowfram.html

Piotr

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Re: interesting LaTeX package for flowing text

[luigi scarso]

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Piotr Kopszak <kopszak@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello List,
>
> Just came across this today. Haven't even tried it. Just wondering
> whether it could be ported to ConTeXt at all.
maybe columns is similar or better

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Re: interesting LaTeX package for flowing text

[Piotr Kopszak]

Columns are excellent, no doubt, but as far as I understand them, they
don't allow to flow text to boxes in arbitrary locations.

Piotr

2010/8/11 luigi scarso <luigi.scarso@gmail.com>:
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Piotr Kopszak <kopszak@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello List,
>>
>> Just came across this today. Haven't even tried it. Just wondering
>> whether it could be ported to ConTeXt at all.
> maybe columns is similar or better
>
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Re: interesting LaTeX package for flowing text

[Hans Hagen]

On 11-8-2010 11:54, Piotr Kopszak wrote:
> Columns are excellent, no doubt, but as far as I understand them, they
> don't allow to flow text to boxes in arbitrary locations.

column sets come pretty close (see mcolumns.pdf)

Hans


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Re: interesting LaTeX package for flowing text

[luigi scarso]

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 11:54 PM, Piotr Kopszak <kopszak@gmail.com> wrote:
> Columns are excellent, no doubt, but as far as I understand them, they
> don't allow to flow text to boxes in arbitrary locations.
>
Sorry, I meant
www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/columns.pdf


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Re: interesting LaTeX package for flowing text

[Piotr Kopszak]

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.

Piotr

2010/8/12 luigi scarso <luigi.scarso@gmail.com>:
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 11:54 PM, Piotr Kopszak <kopszak@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Columns are excellent, no doubt, but as far as I understand them, they
>> don't allow to flow text to boxes in arbitrary locations.
>>
> Sorry, I meant
> www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/columns.pdf
>
>
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Re: interesting LaTeX package for flowing text

[luigi scarso]

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

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