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Re:Line breaking (2014) by pcwalton on Sunday March 04, 2018 @12:45AM (#16513457)
It's true that there's no feature that directly corresponds to parshape. (This is what the ill-fated CSS Regions spec was for; the problem with it is that it was far too expressive to the point of becoming near-unimplementable.)

However, I believe you can simulate parshape by just stacking line-sized floats on top of one another and using clear to stack them vertically. This should give you just as much expressivity as parshape.

See this jsfiddle I threw together quickly (floats in blue to show how the technique works): https://jsfiddle.net/vve89j06/4/

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Re:Line breaking (2014) by taeric on Sunday March 04, 2018 @12:51PM (#16515607)
I think the advantage TeX has here is only over HTML. Specifically, that it is a full programming language. Well, mostly full. Adding in JavaScript and I don't know how the web couldn't do these things. Some of the abstractions will make it harder, of course. But some will make it easier, too.
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