Re: [Docutils-users] pdflatex handle verbatim

[David G. <go...@py...>]

On 4/19/07, Dave Kuhlman <dku...@re...> wrote:
> - Should no-wrap be the default for all cases, even when the image
>   is not inside a table cell?
>
> - What if the image is not immediately inside the cell, but is
>   inside another node type in the cell?  Or, is this not allowed?
>
> - Should the same change be done for the figure directive?

I don't know the answers to any of these.  I took a look at the
OpenDocument spec and fled in horror (I do NOT like RelaxNG).  Is
there a more concise description of the ODF elements?

All I can offer is some advice: be general.  Could there be a table
containing text wrapped around an image, all in one cell?  I don't
know how far ODF goes.

> However, maybe this is a good time to ask: Should the image
> directive have a wrap/no-wrap option?  Are there times when we would
> want to be able to specify in reST whether the text should or should
> not wrap around an image?

Currently wrapping around objects is handled by classes and CSS (in
HTML).

We could provide a format-independent option for wrapping (that would
be translated by each writer).

> Or, is it only for ODF/oowriter where this would be usable?

The ODF case sounds like a bug.  Not sure if it's in OpenOffice, Open
Document, or the oowriter though. ;-) What is the quality of the ODF
generated by OpenOffice.org?  If it's reasonable, you could manually
mock up an example (an image inside a table) and see what the
structure consists of.

> Does LaTeX, for example, allow control of wrapping text around an
> image?

Probably, but I don't know how.

> Sigh.  too many degrees of freedom.

Yup.

-- 
David Goodger <http://python.net/~goodger>