Sanjoy Mahajan wrote:
> So the first step in doing the placement automatically is to get the
> width of the figure. Assuming that I've done
>
> \useexternalfigure[fig_a][f-1.pdf]
>
> is there an easy way to get fig_a's dimensions? After using the figure,
> e.g. with
>
> \placefigure[margin][]{some caption}{\externalfigure[fig_a]}
>
\getfiguredimensions[...] % same args as \externalfigure
after that you have
\figureheight
\figurewidth
> And, but this is trying to do too much at once, the next problem is that
> margin caption below the widest figures (case 3 above) shouldn't overlap
> other floats in the margin and also shouldn't count toward the figure's
> height in the text block. But maybe that's done automatically -- I'll
> make some experiments.
>
limit the caption widths -> maxwidth
best use closed floats and set their characteristics (see details.pdf)
Hans
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