[pmwiki-users] caption + float markup

James Montaldi j.montaldi at gmail.com
Thu May 1 15:45:43 CDT 2008


But I don't see how to include a picture:
The code,

>>rframe width:150px<<
%width=200px% Attach:picture.jpg%%
This is a floating frame of fixed width
>><<

doesn't put the picture in the frame. It isn't resized to 200px. But
it is in the (|div ... version I wrote before.

James



2008/5/1 Henrik Bechmann <henrik.bechmann at sympatico.ca>:
>
>  Oops, I think that should be
>
>  Same as
>
>  (:div class="frame rfloat" style="width:200px":)
>
>
>  This is a floating frame of fixed width
>
>  (:divend:)
>
>
>  Henrik Bechmann wrote:
>
>  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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