[pmwiki-users] caption + float markup
James Montaldi
j.montaldi at gmail.com
Thu May 1 16:02:03 CDT 2008
Sorry! You are right Henrik, it does work - (If you see my code I had
a different width for the image as for the box - how stupid can I
get!)
So, this works
>>rframe width:200px<<
%width=200px% Attach:picture.jpg%%
This is a floating frame of fixed width
>><<
Thanks very much
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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