2010/1/6 Helge Hafting <helge.haft...@hist.no> > 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. > > Not usable by me for now, but that's very interesting, I think this is an important feature for many kind of works, well, it depends on what the target should be in any case, but it's a good idea to be very flexible, so... I think this will be code one day maybe ;) And it will be a really nice feature because, since it's hard to do this kind of things in LaTeX, making it automatic will surely be an important step forward for a lot of people. I'd love this for example. Thanks and greetings,
Luca D.M.
