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authorKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2014-09-30 21:54:11 +0000
committerKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2014-09-30 21:54:11 +0000
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@@ -364,9 +364,9 @@ backcolor=blue,textcolor=white,style=footstyle,pages=none}
\begin{document}\label{top}
\title{Creating Flow Frames for Posters, Brochures or
-Magazines using flowfram.sty version 1.16}
+Magazines using flowfram.sty version 1.17}
\author{Nicola L. C. Talbot}
-\date{2014-06-04}
+\date{2014-09-30}
% swap frames around for title page
\ffswapoddeven*{main}
@@ -418,12 +418,19 @@ the contents of the \env{document} environment flow from one
\gls*{frame} to the next in the order that they were defined.
This is useful for creating posters
or magazines or any other form of document that does not
-conform to the standard one or two column layout.
+conform to the standard one or two column layout. There's an
+optional helper application called
+\texttt{flowframtk}\footnote{\url{http://www.dickimaw-books.com/apps/flowframtk/}}
+if you prefer to use a graphical user interface to set up the
+document layout.
\textbf{The \styni{flowfram} package tries to make \TeX\ do
something it wasn't originally designed to do. It modifies the
-output routine and may not always perform as desired. Caveat
-emptor---or `you get what you pay for'.}
+output routine and may not always perform as desired. Extra care
+must be taken if a paragraph spans frames of unequal width due to
+the asynchronous nature of \TeX's output routine. (See
+\latexhtml{\autoref{sec:unexpectedoutput}}{\htmlref{Unexpected
+Output}{sec:unexpectedoutput}}.})
The \styni{flowfram} package provides three types of \gls*{frame}:
\glspl{flow}, \glspl{static} and \glspl{dynamic} with dimensions and
@@ -789,7 +796,8 @@ result, the end of the paragraph at the beginning of the new
If a paragraph does span two \glspl*{flow} of unequal width without
using \cmdname{framebreak} a warning will be issued. If a subtle
difference in frame widths is caused by rounding errors (for
-example, if the frames were created using Jpgfdraw) you can adjust
+example, if the frames were created using \texttt{flowframtk} or
+\texttt{jpgfdraw}) you can adjust
the tolerance to suppress these warnings. The default tolerance is
2pt. To change this, set the length register \cmdname{fftolerance}
to the required tolerance. For example, to suppress warnings where
@@ -3213,11 +3221,12 @@ For an up-to-date list of frequently asked questions, see
\htmladdnormallink{flowfram
FAQ}{http://www.dickimaw-books.com/faqs/flowframfaq.html}}. If you
have a query that is not addressed here, please try there first. If
-that doesn't answer your query, try posting a message to the \LaTeX\
-Community Forum (\url{http://latex-community.org/forum/}), \TeX\ on
-StackExchange (\url{http://tex.stackexchange.com/}) or the
-\texttt{comp.text.tex} newsgroup. I generally answer questions in
-those places much quicker than queries that are emailed to me.
+that doesn't answer your query, try posting a message to
+\TeX\ on StackExchange (\url{http://tex.stackexchange.com/}),
+the \LaTeX\ Community Forum (\url{http://latex-community.org/forum/})
+or the \texttt{comp.text.tex} newsgroup. I generally answer questions in
+those places much quicker than queries that are emailed to me, which
+tend to get lost in my inbox.
Bugs can be reported using the \latexhtml{form at
\url{http://www.dickimaw-books.com/bug-report.html}}{\htmladdnormallink{bug
@@ -3361,12 +3370,13 @@ Location of the Typeblock}{sec:typeblockloc}}.
\item Is there a GUI I can use to make it easier to create the
\glspl{frame}?
-Yes, Jpgfdraw which can be downloaded from:
-\url{http://www.dickimaw-books.com/apps/jpgfdraw/}
+Yes, \texttt{flowframtk} which can be downloaded from:
+\url{http://www.dickimaw-books.com/apps/flowframtk/}
\end{enumerate}
\htmlnav
\section{Unexpected Output}
+\label{sec:unexpectedoutput}
\begin{enumerate}
\item The lines at the beginning of my \glspl{flow} are the