[pmwiki-users] caption + float markup

[Henrik Bechmann]

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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