[pmwiki-users] Floating text around pictures

[Algis Kabaila]

Hi, Jo,
On Saturday 26 March 2005 08:56, pmwiki-users-request at pmichaud.com wrote:
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> Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 22:15:28 +0100
> From: Joachim Durchholz <jo at durchholz.org>
> Subject: [pmwiki-users] Re: Floating tekst around pictures
> To: pmwiki-users at pmichaud.com
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> Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 05:28:04PM +0100, Joachim Durchholz wrote:
> > 
> >>>On Thursday 24 March 2005 21:59, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>  %align=left width=200%
> >>>>
> >>>>will float the image left and size it to 200 pixels.
> >>>>
> >>>>Pm
> >>
> >>Floating works all right for me, and the text starts to the right of the 
> >>image, but for some reason it starts with the bottom line aligned to the 
> >>bottom of the child, something like this:
> >>
> >>  +-------------+
> >>  |             |
> >>  |    image    |
> >>  |             |
> >>  +-------------+ Text begins here
> >>  and continues here.
> >>
> >>Does anybody has a clue why this happens? (Sounds like a CSS issue, but 
> >>I don't know which CSS styles can affect this behavior...)
> > 
> > Can you provide an example on pmwiki.org somewhere?  (Probably should
> > go in the Test group.)
> 
> Try as I might, I couldn't reproduce the effect.
> 
> I now think that the problem was sitting in front of the monitor - we 
> were trying to get the effect on a certain image, but our frantic 
> attempts to produce a working set of directives went to an entirely 
> different one that came earlier on the page.
> 
> Regards,
> Jo

I could reproduce the effect - by forgetting the %align=left% token just 
before the command to display the picture.  I put a demonstration in the 
PmWiki site at 

http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Test/FloatingImage

Of course, I should have called "FloatingText", but it is called FloatingImage 
for better or for worse. 

My reason for the interest in this problem is that I fell into the same trap 
and could not attain text wrapping around a picture.  Mind you, exactly the 
same problem occurs in html - it is simply lack of attention to the rules of 
the markup.

As I understand it  (or mis-understand it), the PHP language produces HTML 
code and the purpose of any program is to do just that - to produce a HTML 
code, no?  So we can hardly blame PmWiki for producing the code that behaves 
the way html is supposed to behave, can we?

HTH, even if only a little,

Kind regards,

OldAl.

-- 
Algis Kabaila
http://www.pcug.org.au/~akabaila