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diff --git a/doc/user/str_marg b/doc/user/str_marg index f7057c0..246f623 100644 --- a/doc/user/str_marg +++ b/doc/user/str_marg @@ -76,14 +76,13 @@ bottom of the page, if it is very long or if preceding notes obstruct it. Again, it is up to you to avoid this problem by keeping your notes small and not too close together. @PP -Margin notes inside footnotes, figures and tables work well. Margin -notes in multi-column documents are disastrous unless used very -sparingly. Margin notes do not appear in plain text output -(Section {@NumberOf plain}). +Margin notes work well inside footnotes, figures, and tables, but +badly in multi-column documents unless used sparingly. They do +not appear in plain text output (Section {@NumberOf plain}). @PP -A more radical way to place objects at arbitrary points on the current +The @Code "@Place" symbol can place objects at arbitrary points on +the current page: place. @Index @Code "@Place" -page is provided by the @Code "@Place" symbol: @ID @OneRow @Code { "@Place" " x { right - 1c - xsize }" @@ -156,5 +155,6 @@ where the coordinate system's origin is; this is true of the examples above. At the point where @Code "@Place" occurs, the result is an empty object. As with margin notes, Lout does not know what is happening and will not lay out the rest of the page around the -placed object. +placed object. @Code "@Place" does not take account of the value +of any @Code "@PageOrientation" option. @End @Section |