tas@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au (Tasman Derk Van Ommen) (10/31/90)
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 ! ____________________________________ !---------------------------- ! !Physics Department, ! !---------------------------- ! !University of Tasmania, ! ! _________ ---------------- ! !GPO Box 252C, ! !! ! ---------------- ! !Hobart. ! !! Fig ! ---------------- ! !Tasmania. 7001. ! !! ! ---------------- ! !Australia. ! !! ! ---------------- ! ! ! !!_________! ---------------- ! !E-mail: ! ! caption ---------------- ! ! tas@physvax.phys.utas.edu.au ! !---------------------------- ! ------------------------------------
wolf@fb14vax.sbsvax.uucp (Wolfgang Huwig) (11/04/90)
In article <tas.657326771@tasman> 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