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[Groff] Wrapping Text Arond Figures and Captions
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Frank Jahnke |
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[Groff] Wrapping Text Arond Figures and Captions |
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Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:53:34 -0800 |
I would like to revisit a topic that has come up from time to time over
the years but really has not been solved. That is wrapping text around
figures and their captions. I write and submit a lot of proposals that
unfortunately have severe page limits. Using PSPIC for the figure and
caption in a float to keep them together wastes a lot of space that I
simply cannot afford to do.
The most recent discussion on this topic was in March 2009, and on the
27th Werner Lemberg posted a macro that gets much of the way there.
Unfortunately, his macro has a bug where the figure is displaced to the
right of where it should be. It also includes no means to accommodate a
figure caption. (It is easy to add an option for the figure width.)
Sadly I'm not able to do groff coding, or I would have a go at it
myself.
Would it be possible to solve this problem? I've used [t|g]roff for 30
years now, and it has done everything I need -- except for this.
Unfortunately since our National Institutes of Health changed their
proposal format and length (many are but six pages, and these can be
million dollar proposals!) this is a killer. And no, the www macros are
not good enough.
Frank
- [Groff] Wrapping Text Arond Figures and Captions,
Frank Jahnke <=