Received: via tmail-4.1(11) (invoked by user schoepf) for schoepf; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 13:17:28 +0100 (MET) Received: from mailgate1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (mailgate1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.8.56]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA25186 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 13:17:28 +0100 (MET) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from mail.listserv.gmd.de (mail.listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.5]) by mailgate1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA13809 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 13:17:26 +0100 (MET) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01BF882F.1A8DBC00" Received: from mail.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.5) by mail.listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <0.C318723E@mail.listserv.gmd.de>; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 13:16:07 +0100 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 452089 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 13:14:38 +0100 Received: from ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (mail.urz.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.119.234]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA28103 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 13:14:36 +0100 (MET) Received: from relay.uni-heidelberg.de (relay.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.212]) by ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA23060 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 13:17:12 +0100 Received: from tibre.ujf-grenoble.fr (tibre.ujf-grenoble.fr [193.54.238.31]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA14778 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 13:14:32 +0100 (MET) Received: from mozart.ujf-grenoble.fr (mozart.ujf-grenoble.fr [193.54.241.5]) by tibre.ujf-grenoble.fr (Pro-8.9.3/8.9.3/Configured by AD & JE 25/10/1999) with ESMTP id NAA09856 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 13:17:06 +0100 (MET) Received: (from bouche@localhost) by mozart.ujf-grenoble.fr (8.7.6/8.6.9) id NAA21831; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 13:26:28 +0100 (MET) In-Reply-To: <200003062306.AAA02162@istrati.zdv.uni-mainz.de> References: <200003052035.VAA01735@kammer.uni-hannover.de> <200003062306.AAA02162@istrati.zdv.uni-mainz.de> Return-Path: X-Mailer: VM 6.22 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid x-vm-v5-data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil]["958" "Tue" "7" "March" "2000" "13:26:28" "+0100" "Thierry Bouche" "Thierry.Bouche@UJF-GRENOBLE.FR" nil "23" "Re: on OR and trace" "^Date:" nil nil "3" nil nil nil nil nil]nil) Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: Re: on OR and trace Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 13:26:28 +0100 Message-ID: <200003071226.NAA21831@mozart.ujf-grenoble.fr> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Thierry Bouche" Sender: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" To: "Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L" Reply-To: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 3551 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01BF882F.1A8DBC00 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable =BB what it can right now is =BB [...] Aaargh! i've been waiting badly for most of these features! Some questions: could it be possible to have automatic landscape mode for floats depending on their geometry? what is the position of the latex team about putting non-tex features (like color, rotations...) into the kernel or templates? More involved: is there any chance to see automatic `picinpar' (say, a float specifier telling: if width < .4\columnwidth, run the text of the current par around, but if a page break occurs, or it would collide with some long equation, then center it [appropriate parameters to be found...])? You're talking of floats in the margin, what about `floating footnotes' in the margin? (i'm thinking of these bible editions where the commentaries go to the margin next to their calls, and fill the bottom (sometimes the top) of the page depending on their length relative to the main text's length... Thierry Bouche, Grenoble. ------_=_NextPart_001_01BF882F.1A8DBC00 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: on OR and trace

=BB what it can right now is
=BB [...]

Aaargh! i've been waiting badly for most of these = features!

Some questions: could it be possible to have automatic = landscape mode
for floats depending on their geometry? what is the = position of the
latex team about putting non-tex features (like = color, rotations...)
into the kernel or templates?

More involved: is there any chance to see automatic = `picinpar' (say, a
float specifier telling: if width < = .4\columnwidth, run the text of
the current par around, but if a page break occurs, = or it would
collide with some long equation, then center it = [appropriate
parameters to be found...])?

You're talking of floats in the margin, what about = `floating
footnotes' in the margin? (i'm thinking of these = bible editions where
the commentaries go to the margin next to their = calls, and fill the
bottom (sometimes the top) of the page depending on = their length
relative to the main text's length...

Thierry Bouche, Grenoble.

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