Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!unido!sbsvax!wolf From: wolf@fb14vax.sbsvax.uucp (Wolfgang Huwig) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: LaTeX style to wrap text around figures? Message-ID: Date: 3 Nov 90 16:31:42 GMT References: Sender: news@sbsvax.cs.uni-sb.de Distribution: comp Organization: Universitaet des Saarlandes, Saarbruecken, West Germany. Lines: 39 In-reply-to: tas@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au's message of 30 Oct 90 22:46:11 GMT In article tas@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au (Tasman Derk Van Ommen) writes: >I am writing a thesis using latex with lots of encapsulated postscript figures >and I would like to be able to have the text wrap around the figures as in the >following example: > _______________________________ > ! ----text------------------- ! > !---------------- __________ ! > !---------------- ! !! Does anyone have a method for > !---------------- ! Fig !! doing this sort of thing? > !---------------- ! !! > !---------------- ! !! Thankyou, > !---------------- !__________!! Tas van Ommen > !---------------- caption ! > !---------------------------- ! >[...] I'm also interested in this kind of line-oriented processing and a way to do this in LaTeX without harm (I've done a quick and dirty hack which worked for me but is very restricted and hardly tested --- therefore not recommendable to a greater public). Alan Hoenig wrote some TeX macros which allow (even arbitrary shaped) `windows' in between a paragraph. Together with Tomas Rokicki's Encapsulated PostScript File macros and some enhancements (like a colleague and me have done to include PS pictures as figures) it should be possible to make them accessible in LaTeX. But I'm not a TeXpert and I guess it's a bit against LaTeX's philosophy to use macros which influence TeX's paragraph-building routines. But with a bit care ... :-) So I repeat the above question: has someone else tried to do `floating text' in LaTeX or even written a style for it? Greetings, Wolfgang P.S.: Alan Hoenig's macros appeared in ``TeX: applications, uses, methods. M. Clark (ed.), Ellis Horwood.'' (proceedings of TeX'88 at Exeter) I don't have the book nor the macros, just an idea how he did it. Wolfgang Huwig FB14 Informatik Universit\"at des Saarlandes Internet: wolf@cs.uni-sb.de