The Floater: as per the CSS property "float"

The Floater

as per the CSS property "float"

I'm floating!

If you've ever played around with CSS, you know what I mean by this. What the Floater basically does is that it allows you to have a block of text which is "floating" on either the left or right side of the screen, and have the surrounding text flow around the text itselef. Look to your right to see what I mean. Now you can do the same thing to your text documents by using this handy tool. This tool requires two sets of text: one set which will surround the "floated" text, and another set which is the floated text itself. Both sets of text need not be wrapped, and indeed it may be helpful to do so, since having line breaks already may mess up the output.

So, in the grey box there below, you'll see that it's titled "Advanced options." These are advanced options that only I know the meaning of. Normally, a right-aligned float will use the "Meld" option, and a left-aligned float will use the "Add spaces" option. If you have a right aligned float and you force the "add spaces" option, it will cause the floated text to become right aligned. If you have a left-aligned float and you use the "meld" option, It will cause the surrounding text to become right aligned. In retrospect, I probably should have done away with this option and have options like "surrounding text alignment" and "float box text alignment," but I'm really lazy and just want to get this out. Maybe in the next version. Maybe if you pester me enough I'll do it. For now, an easy workaround is to left or right align the floated text in the Reformattor, then place it within the floated text box.

If you want a REAL box around your floated text, my answer would be to use the Tablemaker in conjunction with the Reformattor. Tell the Reformattor to wrap to a line length of what you want, say 20, then put that into the Tablemaker and make sure "Draw lines between rows" or whatever it's called is off. More creative uses of this with my other tools can yield similar results. Be creative!

Advanced options

Force a specific float text and surrounding text combining subroutine:
No force Meld Add spaces

Line length:

The following text will flow around the floated text. In the syntax descriptions that follow, list operators that expect a list (and provide list context for the elements of the list) are shown with LIST as an argument. Such a list may consist of any combination of scalar arguments or list values; the list values will be included in the list as if each individual element were interpolated at that point in the list, forming a longer single-dimensional list value. Elements of the LIST should be separated by commas.

Floated text options [help]

Box width:

Box position: Left Right

Vertical padding:

Horizontal padding:

Vertical offset:

This box contains text that will be floated.

Updates:

6/9/05 - released
6/10 - vertical offset added

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