Re: Floating figures

[Jeff Kingston]

On Fri, 2 Aug 2002 22:54:36 +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
  > 
  > Hi,
  > 
  > I think that LaTeX has several ways to place floating figures, like what 
Lout
  > has, plus a few others. For instance, I believe it is possible to ask it to
  > have a figure only on a single column in a multiple-column document, or to
  > have it "in the middle of the text" with text wrapped around it.
  > 
  > Would it be feasible to implement such things with Lout?
  > 
  > Thanks,
  > Ludovic.

Not very.  Lout isn't able to make text flow around shapes; once a
column width is chosen for a galley (body of text), you have to stick
with that width.

I did experiment with something called "horizontal galleys", which can
do that, and even used them to implement large capital letters at the
start of first paragraphs; but they were never integrated into the system.

Jeff Kingston