Sanjoy Mahajan wrote:
So the first step in doing the placement automatically is to get the width of the figure. Assuming that I've done
\useexternalfigure[fig_a][f-1.pdf]
is there an easy way to get fig_a's dimensions? After using the figure, e.g. with
\placefigure[margin][]{some caption}{\externalfigure[fig_a]}
\getfiguredimensions[...] % same args as \externalfigure after that you have \figureheight \figurewidth
And, but this is trying to do too much at once, the next problem is that margin caption below the widest figures (case 3 above) shouldn't overlap other floats in the margin and also shouldn't count toward the figure's height in the text block. But maybe that's done automatically -- I'll make some experiments.
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