using latex environment floatingfigure

[MichelDSchmid]

Dear all

I could figure out how to set text side by side to an image in html output. In Latex I'm doing that with \begin{floatingfigure}.
I can use the latex-environment extension to use floatingfigure with the correct options, BUT how can I deactivate the default figure environment? fig-env="" seems not to work.
If I can't deactivating the figure environment of quarto, I get in latex:
\begin{floatingfigure}[r]{6cm}
\begin{figure}
...
\end{figure}
\end{floatingfigure}

Nesting figure environments isn't possible in latex.

Some hints how I can handle this ?

Thank you very much in advance
Mike

[cderv]

Can you share a .qmd file / project of what you are doing ?

If I understand correctly you are using latex-environment extension to create a figure environment you want to replace ?

if so, does setting fig-env not enough to using floatingfigure instead of figure ? Are you missing the configuration option, is that so ? fig-pos can be use to set the r value but you could also be able to use fig-pos = "[r]{6cm}" for the all configuration you need.

Anyhow, I don't think you need the latex environment extension, and definitely not to replace internal figure env handling. Maybe we are missing something and we'll add it

[MichelDSchmid]

This is what I get now:
`
\begin{floatingfigure}[[r]{6cm}]

{\centering \includegraphics[width=4cm,height=\textheight]{ch_galvanische_elemente/images/voltaicPillar.jpg}

}

\caption{Voltaische Säule}

\end{floatingfigure}
`

and that's what I wrote in the qmd-file

![Voltaische Säule](./images/voltaicPillar.jpg){ width="4cm" fig-env="floatingfigure" fig-pos="[r]{6cm}" }

There is now [ ] to much for latex so I can't see the figure

Currently I removed the extension again ...
Thank you very much for your help

[MichelDSchmid]

\begin{floatingfigure}[[r]{6cm}]
the first rectangle bracket is to much .... but the figure is loading now ...

[MichelDSchmid]

Is there some way to manipulate the *.tex file before running xelatex? In this case I could solve the problem with the brackets

[jdutant]

Looks like Quarto handles fig-env="ENVRT" fig-pos="POS" by producing "\begin{ENVRT}[POS]" in LaTeX output, so it can't handle the fact that floatingfigure has an extra argument: with fig-pos="[r]{6cm" you get \begin{ENVRT}[[r]{6cm}]. Perhaps Quarto could introduce a fig-opt attribute for arbitrary additions, but it's not there yet.

A workaround would be to use conditional content to provide a raw LaTeX alternative for LaTeX/PDF output.

::: {.content-visible unless-format="pdf"}

![Voltaische Säule](./images/voltaicPillar.jpg){ width="4cm" }

:::

::: {.content-visible when-format="pdf"}

`\begin{floatingfigure}[r]{6cm}`{=latex}
![Voltaische Säule](./images/voltaicPillar.jpg){ width="4cm" }
`\caption{Voltaische Säule}`{=latex}
`\end{floatingfigure}`{=latex}
:::

LaTex output:

\begin{floatingfigure}[r]{6cm}
\includegraphics[width=4cm,height=\textheight]{./images/voltaicPillar.jpg}
\caption{Voltaische Säule}    \end{floatingfigure}

Important: you need both explicit LaTeX inlines `...`{=latex}, and to have no empty lines around ![title](image.jpg. Without the first, the entire content between \begin and \end is read as raw LaTeX. That is, the following:

\begin{floatingfigure}[r]{6cm}
![Voltaische Säule](./images/voltaicPillar.jpg){ width="4cm" }
\end{floatingfigure

is copied verbatime in LaTeX output:

\begin{floatingfigure}[r]{6cm}
![Voltaische Säule](./images/voltaicPillar.jpg){ width="4cm" }
\end{floatingfigure}

And with empty lines around images you would get an extra \begin{figure} environment again. This:

`\begin{floatingfigure}[r]{6cm}`{=latex}

![Voltaische Säule](./images/voltaicPillar.jpg){ width="4cm" }

`\caption{Voltaische Säule}`{=latex}
`\end{floatingfigure}`{=latex}

Renders in LaTeX as:

\begin{floatingfigure}[r]{6cm}
\begin{figure}
{\centering \includegraphics[width=4cm,height=\textheight]{./images/voltaicPillar.jpg}}
\caption{Voltaische Säule}
\end{figure}
\caption{Voltaische Säule} \end{floatingfigure}

Which is what you got with the latex-environment filter, I guess.

ALTERNATIVE. You could use the latex-environment extension to do without raw LaTeX on the when-format="pdf". But (a) you'd still need conditional content, for the ![title](image.jpg) should still be converted to a figure on the HTML side, while treated as a mere image in a {.floatingfigure} environement, and (b) you'd still need \caption{...} in Raw LaTeX, and (c) you need to ensure your ![title](image.jpg) isn't alone in a paragraph, otherwise it becomes a figure again. This would look like:

::: {.content-visible unless-format="pdf"}

![Voltaische Säule](./images/voltaicPillar.jpg){ width="4cm" }

:::

::: {.content-visible when-format="pdf"}

::::: {.floatingfigure options="r" arguments="6cm"}

![](./images/voltaicPillar.jpg){ width="4cm" }
\caption{Voltaische Säule}

:::::

:::

[cscheid]

#4856

[jdutant]

Indeed in string.find(pos, "^%[{") there the intended pattern was probably @cderv's ^[%[{]!

[cscheid]

Hm. Is { a valid character for a position specifier to start with? In that case, @cderv is correct, and mine isn't. I thought it always needed [ and could be followed by something else. I'll use his, he's smarter than me by a mile :)

[cderv]

Is { a valid character for a position specifier to start with?

Yes in theory you can have environment that only have options specified with {..} so \begin{env}{opt}

Example can be found in this list (https://latex-programming.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_LaTeX_environments#Figure_environment) by searching for }{ in the page

Example: array environment

https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/math1020/chapter/array-environment/

Arrays line items up in columns. Here are some basic steps for making arrays
(a) Type \begin{array}.
(b) Use an argument to describe how you want your table to be justified. Immediately following the
\begin{array} command, add a set of brackets.

So for figure environment specifically I don't know, but in general it could happen - that is what I thought first that %[{ was about that, but missing the surrounding square brackets.

[MichelDSchmid]

Thank you very much for your unbelivable fast help

in quarto I enter now: ![Voltaische Säule](./images/voltaicPillar.jpg){ width="4cm" fig-env="floatingfigure" fig-pos="[r]{6cm}" }
and in the .tex file I can see: \begin{floatingfigure}[r]{6cm}

Everything seems to be ok in the pdf.

Thank you very much
Mike