2010/04/28

Things I would like to be able to do in LaTeX #63

(In an on-going series.)

Grid-based algorithms for filling up space with boxes: (this is all HTML+CSS+Javascript)

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The best LaTeX algorithms for space-filling revolve around column-balancing running text with floating boxes within. For arranging boxes as here, I’m not aware of any high-level tools, although ConTeXt may have some that I’m unaware of.