interesting LaTeX package for flowing text
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 -- http://okle.pl
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
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Piotr Kopszak
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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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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
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
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 11:54 PM, 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.
Sorry, I meant www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/columns.pdf
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On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:17 AM, 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. 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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