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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Jerry wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">I am finding it rather hard to believe that something MS Word does so
effortlessly, is for all practical purposes, impossible in LaTeX. </pre>
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MS Word and TeX are as different as chalk and cheese. What one
finds trivial, the other may find virtually impossible, but overall,
TeX can accomplish far more than MS Word, and to a far higher
quality. Perhaps you should consider a package such as Adobe
InDesign, which is <i>intended</i> and <i>designed </i>to address
such requirements.<br>
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<pre wrap="">If I had the ability, which I don't, I would create a package that does just that.
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I think you would find it both instructive and informative to
investigate what would be necessary to implement such a package.
For my own private use I have Plain TeX macros that can insert
floating figures that span two or more paragraph boundaries, but
those figures must be rectilinear; the added complexity of handling
convex polygons (or worse, such as fully analytic outlines) would be
such a challenge that I might never succeed in my remaining lifetime
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Philip Taylor<br>
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