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From: rokicki@neon.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: parshape, etc.
Message-ID: <1991May10.164327.20285@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 10 May 91 16:43:27 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University, Ca , USA
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One subtlety that must be considered when asking about TeX flowing things
around irregular shapes is that the baselineskip is allowed to stretch to
fill out the page vertically---so when the paragraph is broken, it is not
known what the baselineskip will be, and thus where each line hits the
figure is unknown.

A solution to this is just to fix the baselineskip, of course.

Remember that paragraph breaking and page breaking are asynchronous with
respect to each other . . .

-tom