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Re: Tex hyphenation patterns and fixed areas in columns
From: |
Jeff Kingston |
Subject: |
Re: Tex hyphenation patterns and fixed areas in columns |
Date: |
Sun, 21 Oct 2001 10:04:39 +1000 |
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 15:18:21 +0400 (MSD), Jürgen Dums wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I´m new in lout and I check to use lout as a backend in a certain
> project.
> I have 2 questions:
>
> - Is there a tool to convert TEX hyphenation patterns to the format lout
> likes to have?
No, but it's not hard to do by hand. There is documentation available
on the file format in Lout distribution file hyph/README.
>
> - Is it possible in lout to define in a page or in a column a fixed area
> an the text is going around this area?
> Like:
>
> Text Text Text Text Text Text
> Text Text Text ---------------
> Text Text Text | |
> Text Text Text | |
> Text Text Text ---------------
> Text Text Text Text Text Text
Not really. Lout has a basic limitation that its flowing text
can't change its width as it goes. There is a feature called
"horizontal galleys" which can do this and has been used to
make text flow around a large capital letter at the start of
a paragraph, but it's on the experimental fringe and I don't
recommend you to try it.
Jeff Kingston