Luca De Marini wrote:
Hallo list, I'd like to understand a fast thing I never considered but am
considering now: is it possible in Lyx or Latex to wrap text around a
picture for real? I mean, in lyx I can do something like that to wrap text
around a picture but, in reality, I wrap it around a square into which
there's the picture. What if I have a transparent PNG and want the text to
wrap REALLY around the picture considering transparency? Looking at this
page:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Floats,_Figures_and_Captions
And studying it, sounds to me it's impossible to achieve such a goal, am I
correct?
Doable but not easy.
Start LyX, then try Help->Additional Features. There, read section 7.4
"Non-standard Paragraph Shapes"
Text can be typeset into any kind of paragraph shape, but you currently
have to specify the exact shape through series of line-length commands.
Now, LyX is software, so it'd be possible to extend it to find the
outline of a png, and emit all those commands automatically. But nobody
has done that yet.
Helge Hafting
