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Re: [Groff] Wrapping Text Arond Figures and Captions
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Werner LEMBERG |
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Re: [Groff] Wrapping Text Arond Figures and Captions |
Date: |
Fri, 25 Jan 2013 18:04:54 +0100 (CET) |
> The basic problem is to split the lines into a lot of segments of
> different lengths -- pasting the segments into place would then be
> possible.
We are leaving the area of automatic text processing and entering the
realms of a visual layout program. It's OK to have an image centered,
since this can be certainly handled in a programmatical way (maybe
using a yet-to-be-written extension to groff), but multiple images
with overlapping vertical or horizontal distances...
It would be necessary to define a page layout independently of the
page contents, and groff's rather naive layout mechanism certainly
doesnt' support this yet. I really doubt whether this makes any
sense. Just think of inserting a few sentences! Shall images be
anchored at the text and move? Or should the positions stay fixed,
and the text flows around?
Werner