Any chance lua might change something here in the future? P.
2009/5/12 Hans Hagen <pra...@wxs.nl>: > Piotr Kopszak wrote: >> >> Dear all, >> >> I am close to give up, but maybe there is a solution... I have a book >> to typeset literally peppered with hundreds of little drawings which >> are supposed to appear irregularly surrounded by text flowing around >> them on all sides. >> -------------------------------- >> |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | >> |xxxxx-----xxxxxxxxxxxxxx| >> |xxxxx| |xxxxxx----xxxx | >> |xxxxx|__|xxxxxx| |xxxx| >> |xxxxxxxxxxxxxx |__|xxxx| >> |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx| >> -------------------------------- >> >> I naively imagine that should not be that hard to implement ;) Since >> we already have overlays it's no problem to place images in arbitrary >> places. It only remains to drill white holes in the text to make room >> for them. What about such procedure: >> >> 1. While building the line TeX checks if there is any overlay ahead. >> 2 if so, it puts empty hbox of the overlay width when it reaches >> necessary distance from the edge. >> 3. and does so for the number of lines which equal overlay height. >> >> Of course that leaves aside the problem of justification and without >> justification such page would probably look very ugly (I dare not to >> think if hz optimization, which I really got used to, would still >> work). >> Is there still hope I could stay with ConTeXt this time as well? > > one can have parshapes in tex but not that complex as you want > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE > Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands > tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com > | www.pragma-pod.nl > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to > the Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > -- http://okle.pl ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
