Re: enchanced Jade TeX backend

Subject: Re: enchanced Jade TeX backend
From: "James Clark" <jjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 5 Jul 1997 11:37:30 +0700
> > It doesn't really have a concept of floats.  What it has instead is a
> > notion of box/frame that is explicitly positioned with respect to the
page:
> > its page layout facilities really assume there's a human sitting there
> > deciding where to position things.
> 
> I don't know about RTF, but in Word you can "anchor" a frame to a
> paragraph.

That is available in RTF but is non-useful for Jade, because you have to
explicitly specify the vertical position of the frame with respect to the
first line of the paragraph.  In any case that doesn't help with floating
something to the top or bottom of the page.

James


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