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Browsers have to worry about things like floats, so that the available width for a line can vary depending on the line-breaking choices made for the lines above
by mjw1007 9y ago
Browsers have to worry about things like floats, so that the available width for a line can vary depending on the line-breaking choices made for the lines above it.
There's some discussion at
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=630181 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=630181
- taeric 9y agoYou say this as if browsers invented floats. Pretty sure TeX has knowledge of floats. Would have to double check, as I am used to LaTeX. These are not new terms to publishing. Edit: Saw in a following post that TeX doesn't have direct primitives for what are commonly called floats. \midinsert and the like aren't quite the same, and while \parshape is hella powerful, it isn't the same either. I'm still skeptical that these aren't powerful enough. And I'm still fairly certain LaTeX does have floats, but I was wrong on TeX.
- jacoblambda 9y agoCan confirm that LaTeX has floats. They can be a bit finicky to work with but they are there.
- taeric 9y agoFloats and positioning are easily the most misunderstood parts of the web. So, not sure it matters that they are finicky.