[pmwiki-users] caption + float markup

[James Montaldi]

Thanks - I guess that works.  I never find it very satisfactory to put
in line-breaks manually in order to fit layout though.

Looking again at the markup pages on PmWiki, it seems that the only
way to produce a block of text of a given width is to use (:div attr:)
markup.  However, when I tried

%lframe width=200px%A long sentence that doesn't fit in 200px but
would need to linewrap%%

I did indeed get a nice 200px-wide box with the text inside it,
wrapped appropriately. (Works also with lfloat in place of lframe).
But I don't seem able to get both the picture and the text to fit in
the box.  (I suppose I need to understand better what the wiki engine
is doing?)

Any comments?  Am I missing something?

James



2008/4/30 Tegan Dowling <tmdowling at gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 5:16 PM, James Montaldi <j.montaldi at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > Hi all
>  >
>  >  I am trying to figure out the wiki markup required in order to float a
>  >  figure left, in a frame and with a caption. But the caption is wider
>  >  than the figure so must be on two lines.
>  >  I tried something like
>  >
>  >  %lframe width=200px%Attach:Picture.jpg|A long caption that requires
>  >  more than one line in order to fit under the image%%
>  >
>  >  But that doesn't make the frame 200px wide, only the image.  The frame
>  >  fills out to allow the caption to be a single line.
>
>  Place a manual line-break in the caption?
>
>
>  %lframe width=200px%Attach:Picture.jpg|A long caption that requires
>  more than \\
>  one line in order to fit under the image%%
>
>  (N.B., it's critical that the back-slashes not be followed by anything
>  other than the line-break; if they're followed by a space, then they
>  just function as backslashes, and not as formatting)
>