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. -- Bawolff On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 2:35 PM, Emanuele D'Arrigo <[email protected]> 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 > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > To unsubscribe, go to: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
