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Re: Figure placement
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Jeff Kingston |
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Re: Figure placement |
Date: |
Thu, 18 Jun 1998 08:30:51 +1000 |
> rather than just whining
Don't worry, plenty of other people do it, and it's a spur to
action on my part. I'm quite sure that Lout would be a far less
effective thing today if there had been less whining over the years.
> Is it possible to stop figures from being scaled when using the
> AfterLine location style? What I would like to happen is that the
> figure gets moved to the top of the next page and blank space left
> at the bottom of the page it didn't fit on.
I understand this and I will look into it. It comes about because
of Lout's generality: there are times when you have to scale an
object, because otherwise it won't fit in the document at all; and
there are times when you can just skip to the next place it can go.
I guess there is a need to revisit the criteria Lout uses to choose
between these two options.
> Will Lout ever be able to fill text around floating figures that
> don't span the complete column width?
No, never. Lout is built entirely on rectangles, and they are so
deeply embedded in the system that the kind of L shaped text you
get by filling around a figure is right out of the question. In
the magnificant vapourware successor to Lout, perhaps...
Jeff