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- From: tjones@access.digex.com (Tom Jones)
- Newsgroups: comp.text.interleaf
- Subject: Re: How do I get text to flow around graphics?
- Date: 10 Jan 1993 06:29:06 GMT
- Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
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- Keywords: help flowing text graphics
-
- In article <1inmbuINNas@treflan.crhc.uiuc.edu>
- tomm@crhc.uiuc.edu (Thomas B Maciukenas) writes:
-
- >Well, the subject line says it all. I'm using
- >Interleaf on an HP Apollo workstation
- >and I want the text to (__) flow around a
- >graphical object ______(oo) like this. I
- >have tried every /| ## (..) placement op-
- >tion I could find * ||---|| and nothing
- >seems to work. I would greatly
- >appreciate any suggestions, comments, hints,
- >etc.
- >
-
- The misc->shape command while editing text will put one into the shape-
- edit mode; select the grey boxes and move them around the object.
- There is no way to do this automatically (Pagemaker's algorithm is
- pretty bad at it anyway). There is NO easy way to get text to flow
- in a single column around a central object, as you showed, and in:
-
- 1 2 3 4 5 *** = object
- 6 7 *** 8 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d = text sequence
- 9 a b c d
-
- By changing the document to 2 columns on the page properties sheet,
- you CAN do:
-
- 1 2 3 9 a b
- 4 5 **** c d
- 6 7 8 e f
-
- I consider this lack of a feature to be good--reading around objects
- is extremely annoying when the objects aren't at the right or left
- margin of the column, and you have to search for the correct line on
- the other side.
-
- -tom jones
- Greenbelt, MD
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