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Huck Rorick
Hi,
This is very interesting. Since I'm just going to start with html as a
result of this conversation (and haven't done so yet), I can't test the
ideas. However, in terms of results I would like to get, sometimes I would
like to do each thing. With word perfect, in theory (it didn't work very
well in practice) you could place a graphic so that it was:
1) at a set location on the page, all text flowed around it. No matter how
much text you added, or where you added it, the image stayed at the same
place and text wrapped around it.
2) It was attached to a paragraph. It moved with the paragraph (i.e. could
end up on a different page) and text for the paragraph and any subsequent
paragraphs flowed around graphic.
3) It was attached to a character and stayed with that character. the
graphic could be "inline" so that text would go along until the graphic,
then the graphic would appear, and text would continue on the "other side"
of the graphic starting with the next character.
Each of these was useful in different circumstances.
Sometimes I would like the start of the paragraph to align with the image.
Sometimes I would like the middle of the paragraph to align. Sometimes I
just want the image to be on the page without a specific relation to the
text.
Huck
This is very interesting. Since I'm just going to start with html as a
result of this conversation (and haven't done so yet), I can't test the
ideas. However, in terms of results I would like to get, sometimes I would
like to do each thing. With word perfect, in theory (it didn't work very
well in practice) you could place a graphic so that it was:
1) at a set location on the page, all text flowed around it. No matter how
much text you added, or where you added it, the image stayed at the same
place and text wrapped around it.
2) It was attached to a paragraph. It moved with the paragraph (i.e. could
end up on a different page) and text for the paragraph and any subsequent
paragraphs flowed around graphic.
3) It was attached to a character and stayed with that character. the
graphic could be "inline" so that text would go along until the graphic,
then the graphic would appear, and text would continue on the "other side"
of the graphic starting with the next character.
Each of these was useful in different circumstances.
Sometimes I would like the start of the paragraph to align with the image.
Sometimes I would like the middle of the paragraph to align. Sometimes I
just want the image to be on the page without a specific relation to the
text.
Huck