From: Hartmut Henkel <hartmut_henkel@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: Paragraph internal graphic/layout inquiry.
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 20:06:22 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0507131956580.4132@hahepc1.hahe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42D4C175.5060102@elvenkind.com>
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> David Wooten wrote:
> > Mr. Tufte has an interesting example from da Vinci: http://
> > trichotomic.net/Leonardo.jpg (76k). Is this type of layout currently
> > possible (or perhaps a better question, wieldy) within ConTeXt?
>
> In a standard TeX installation, it is not possible to make this type
> of paragraph without massive amounts of manual intervention, because
> TeX's paragraphs cannot (normally) contain holes.
FWIW, there is a pointer to a similar problem in DEK's "Digital
Typography", chapter 9: "Problem for a Saturday Morning", published in
TUGboat 8 (1987) (Harmless title for the amount of macros piling up
there :-) An article from Alan Hoenig is also mentioned, which can be
found there:
http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb08-2/tb18hoenig.pdf
Regards, Hartmut
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-13 18:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-13 0:08 David Wooten
2005-07-13 7:23 ` Taco Hoekwater
2005-07-13 15:53 ` David Wooten
2005-07-13 18:06 ` Hartmut Henkel [this message]
2005-07-19 14:08 ` Mikael Persson
2005-07-19 20:38 ` Hans Hagen
2005-07-20 0:36 ` David Wooten
2005-07-20 1:03 ` Matthias Weber
2005-07-20 5:11 ` luigi.scarso
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