<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Peter Davis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pfd@pfdstudio.com">pfd@pfdstudio.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div>The Textpos package is a great thing, allowing me to put blocks of text anywhere on the page, and still get the benefit of TeX's composition within those blocks.</div><div><br></div><div>Does anyone know of a way to specify a list of blocks, so that text would automatically overflow from one block to the next? This would require specifying a height as well as a width for the blocks.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Alternatively, is there any recommended way to estimate how many line would fit in a given height, so I can break up the text beforehand? This would, of course, create problems with hyphenation on the last line of a block of text.</div>
<div><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Someone suggested the flowfram package to me off-list, and it looks fantastic. However, from what I can tell, flowfram still supposes a single "main" flow of text, possible with sidebars, etc.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I'd like to be able to have multiple "stories", each with an associated set of frames to be filled in order. The textpos package, for example, allows you to specify a width, but not a height. I'd like to specify a height, and then automatically start filling another container when the first is full.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Anything remotely like that around? (Well, obviously flowfram is remotely like that, but, as I said, only for a single flow per document.)</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you!</div><div><br></div><div>
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