The best I can come up with (Not using tables, but div based layout).
85% main column 2% gap 13% second column
<div style="width:85%">
Some random text. More random text....
Next paragraph. Yadda Yadda TEXT WE ARE ALIGNING AGAINST <span
class="note"
style="position:absolute;left:102.3%;width:15.2%">Some
note. Here.</span>
....
</div>
(Keep in mind the percentags on the span are relative to the width of
the parent container so you have to divide by .85. The left offset is
.87/.85 and the note width is .13/.85). Note, if two notes are too
close together, they may overlap in a really ugly fashion.
If you're ok with just aligning on a paragraph basis, using css
float:right; would be easier, and boxes would definitely not overlap
if two boxes are too close.
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Bawolff
On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 2:35 PM, Emanuele D'Arrigo <manu3d(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi everybody!
I'm in the process of manually converting a number PDF documents to wiki
pages. The work is mostly straightforward copy&paste.
There is one feature of the original PDFs document however that is hard to
convert.
To simplify the issue, imagine that document has a two columns layout, one
column quite wide and the other, much narrower (say 85%/15%) width.
The wide column is full of normal text with some structure (i.e. sections,
paragraph and lists). The narrow column has small sparse notes (i.e. dates
and people's names) that relate to specific lines of text in the wide
column: in the PDF a note is at the same height as the line of text it
relates to.
Obviously, in a static PDF this works, but in a browser window the text in
the wide column will reflow depending on the size and ratio of the window.
Therefore, how do I ensure that the note in the small column remains at the
same level with the portion of text it relates to? Effectively, how do I
anchor the y-position of an element in a column of a wikitable to the
y-position of, say, a specific word in another column of the same wiki
table?
Kind Regards,
Manu
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