[pmwiki-users] caption + float markup

Henrik Bechmann henrik.bechmann at sympatico.ca
Thu May 1 07:29:53 CDT 2008


Try

 >>rframe width:200px<<

This is a floating frame of fixed width

 >><<

Same as

(:div class=rframe style="width:200px":)

This is a floating frame of fixed width

(:divend:)


- Henrik

James Montaldi wrote:
> 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)
>>
>>     
>
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