RE: [nooby q] 'linked' text flow

2005-02-21 Thread Glenn Davy
r is no, however will be interested to hear otherwise. If not no worries, I'll just continue my journey into lyx,latex,tex and a less urgent rate Thx Glenn -Original Message- From: Rich Shepard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 20 February 2005 9:38 AM To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org S

Re: [nooby q] 'linked' text flow

2005-02-21 Thread Herbert Voss
Andre Poenitz wrote: There is an example in Knuth's TeXbook that shows text floating around a circle, but you have to manually compute all the line length needed and it is a real pain to do so for more than one paragraph. It might be possible to automate that task a bit, but this is not on LyX's ra

Re: [nooby q] 'linked' text flow

2005-02-21 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 11:53:01PM +1100, Glenn Davy wrote: > I imagine given the 'structured' nature of lyx that this isn't possible? It's almost impossible to do with (La)TeX, so it is not exactly LyX's fault that this is not possible. > Correct? Is it however possible to use some LaTeX tricks

RE: [nooby q] 'linked' text flow

2005-02-19 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 20 Feb 2005, Glenn Davy wrote: Does anyone know of a page layout tools that an utilise content created with Lyx/LaTex and 'lay' it out in a manner described? Lyx seems like a great way to author content. Glenn, It still looks like you are asking for more work than you need. From the above

RE: [nooby q] 'linked' text flow

2005-02-19 Thread Glenn Davy
- From: Rich Shepard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 20 February 2005 1:24 AM To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: [nooby q] 'linked' text flow On Sat, 19 Feb 2005, Glenn Davy wrote: > In programs like pagemaker, or scribus its possible to place boxes at > (of

Re: [nooby q] 'linked' text flow

2005-02-19 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 19 Feb 2005, Glenn Davy wrote: In programs like pagemaker, or scribus its possible to place boxes at (often indiscriminant) places throught a document, and have a 'story' flow through them. I imagine given the 'structured' nature of lyx that this isn't possible? Correct? Is it however possi

[nooby q] 'linked' text flow

2005-02-19 Thread Glenn Davy
Hi again - just a newbie trying to wear out his welcome. In programs like pagemaker, or scribus its possible to place boxes at (often indiscriminant) places throught a document, and have a 'story' flow through them. I imagine given the 'structured' nature of lyx that this isn't possible? Corr