Taco Hoekwater <t...@elvenkind.com> wrote: > On 09/25/2010 08:03 PM, Elias Oltmanns wrote: >> > >> The first couple of lines of the paragraph beginning on page two should >> really go on the previous page. Since the hang mechanism of \placefigure >> doesn't work due to the page break, I'd like to split this paragraph >> into two logical entities, so TeX can put the first on the first page >> and treat the second as a separate paragraph flowing around the picture. >> However, the reader should not be aware of this split. >> >> Any help much appreciated, > > I don't know of any automatic solution to this problem (except _perhaps_ > columnsets could help) but the simplest way to split a paragraph into > two paragraphs while still looking like one is by inserting a macro > like this at an existing break point:
Thanks Taco, this appears to be exactly what I was looking for. One more thing though: is there a simple way to arrange for all arguments provided to \splitpar to be passed on to \placefigure in a definition like this: > > \def\splitpar > {\bgroup > \parfillskip\zeropoint > \par \aftergroup \placefigure % arguments to \splitpar should be passed on > \aftergroup \parskip > \aftergroup \zeropoint > \aftergroup \noindentation > \egroup } Thanks for your help, Elias ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________