Automatic float placement in multi-column documents

Marriott, Kim; Moulder, Peter V.; Hurst, Nathan

doi:10.1145/1284420.1284455

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“…In particular, we think that the algorithms can be extended to involve text composed of sequences of characters, rather than lines, and that the float placement algorithms do not need to be first-fit. Most relevant in the literature is the work by Hurst, Marriott and Moulder [4,5,6].…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Typesetting multiple interacting streams

Mancilla

Beck

Plaice

2012

Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Symposium on Document Engineering

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We present a new means for specifying multiple interacting streams, as is needed for documents with multiple systems of notes, side-by-side translations, and critical editions. Each stream is treated as a sequence of components, and anchors are used in the concrete syntax to define reference points used by other streams. When these streams are loaded into memory, the anchors simply become iterators in a container. We present a set of algorithms for the typesetting of multiple streams of text, each with multiple streams of floats and footnotes.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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Typesetting multiple interacting streams

Mancilla

Beck

Plaice

2012

Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Symposium on Document Engineering

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“…The complexity of this problem is increased when some containers have fixed positions which makes harder the aesthetical arrangement of floating containers. Marriott et al [13] discusses in detail the problem of laying out floating containers in multi-column documents.…”

Section: The Boxmentioning

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Building table formatting tools

Bilauca

Healy

2011

Proceedings of the 11th ACM Symposium on Document Engineering

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In this paper we present an overview of the challenges to overcome when developing table authoring tools, including a review of logical table models, typographical issues and automated table layout optimization. We present a Table Drawing Tool prototype which implements an automated solution for the table layout optimization problem for tables with spanning cells using a mathematical modelling method. We report on the performance improvements of this new optimization method compared to previous solutions.

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“…Placing floats in multi-column layout was considered by Marriott et al [62]. They investigated the use of dynamic programming and A techniques.…”

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Review of automatic document formatting

Hurst

Marriott

2009

Proceedings of the 9th ACM Symposium on Document Engineering

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We review the literature on automatic document formatting with an emphasis on recent work in the field. One common way to frame document formatting is as a constrained optimization problem where decision variables encode element placement, constraints enforce required geometric relationships, and the objective function measures layout quality. We present existing research using this framework, describing the kind of optimization problem being solved and the basic optimization techniques used to solve it. Our review focuses on the formatting of primarily textual documents, including both micro-and macro-typographic concerns. We also cover techniques for automatic table layout. Related problems such as widget and diagram layout, as well as temporal layout issues that arise in multimedia documents are outside the scope of this review.

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Automatic float placement in multi-column documents

Cited by 10 publications

References 3 publications

Typesetting multiple interacting streams

Typesetting multiple interacting streams

Building table formatting tools

Review of automatic document formatting

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