On Fri, 4 May 2012 19:34:55 +1000
Lex Trotman <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm surprised, IIUC Latex can do text wrapped around images, at least
> to some extent.  I guess you would know more on that.  

Yes, it does.

With the help of LyX I was able to very quickly produce desired effect.

Here is the small snippet...

\begin{document}
Some text...

\begin{wrapfigure}{i}{0.5\columnwidth}%
\caption{\protect\includegraphics{graphicfile}}

\end{wrapfigure}%


More text to be wrapped.


So, LyX uses LaTeX's wrapfig package which does nice job and in the end
it might be that we'll simply use LyX/LaTeX instead of both AsciiDoc and
reST/Sphinx.

> If so, why dblatex doesn't use it I don't know, but then I don't know
> what Latex is involved, maybe its complicated.

Dblatex cannot even do left/right aligned image, what to speak of
floating one.

The following declaration in AsciiDoc:

image::images/graphicfile.png[align="right",scale=200%] 

produces the following docbook output:

<informalfigure>
<mediaobject>
  <imageobject>
  <imagedata fileref="images/graphicfile.png"/>
  </imageobject>
  <textobject><phrase>align="right"</phrase></textobject>
</mediaobject>
</informalfigure>

which creates PDF with centered-image.

Even, 'fixing' the above snippet to:

<informalfigure>
<mediaobject>
  <imageobject>
  <imagedata fileref="images/graphicfile.png" align="right"/>
  </imageobject>
</mediaobject>
</informalfigure>

creates the same PDF with centered-image which means dblatex is silent
on image-aligning parameter which makes AsciiDoc unsuitable for the task
involving some image-manipulation. :-(


Sincerely,
Gour


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