[comp.text.tex] parshape, etc.

rokicki@neon.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki) (05/10/91)

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