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From: mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: Wrapping Text completly around graphic in WORDPERFECT (how?)
Keywords: text box, no text on sides.
Message-ID: <09R2o2w163w@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
Date: 5 Sep 90 23:56:44 GMT
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Organization: The Programmers' Pit Stop, Ann Arbor MI
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gail@wet.UUCP (Gail Gurman) writes:
> I now what you want to do . . . something like this:
>         _____
> This is |   | a test.
> This is |___| another test.

You can't do this because it's extremely bad typographic design.  When
you're reading something, it's very inconvenient for your eye to have
to stop in the middle of a sentence and pick up again several inches
to the right.  If you want to wrap text around a graphic, it should be
done like this:

Your text goes|You have another 
here.  Note |~~~|column here.
the graphic.|___|See how much
It   continues|easier it is to
here.         |read?

If you look at something like a newspaper, a magazine, or a journal
article, you will notice that text is NEVER wrapped around a graphic
like you suggest.  There are frequently two columns, with the graphic
between them.

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