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Kai Großjohann wrote:
>> Therefore, I'm looking for a LaTeX-Fill-Paragraph replacement that
>> breaks lines correctly when inline images are used. Instead of
>> specifying a fill column the user would specify the desired width of
>> paragraphs in pixels or centimeters. This might also be interesting
>> when using variable width fonts instead of fixed width fonts.
> 
> Does this problem come from using images, or from using overlays?  I
> think it's probably the overlays, but I'm not sure.

What are overlays? The problem occurs because LaTeX-Fill-Paragraph 
formats text according to the underlying source code, it doesn't know 
about the inline images. An formatting algorithm that might work would 
be something like this:

1. Go to the beginning of a paragraph. 
2. Remove all newlines from that paragraph
3. Set the variable LINE_WIDTH to 0.
4. Add the width of the next visible entity (single character, inline
   image, ...) to LINE_WIDTH.
5. If LINE_WIDTH > MAX_LINE_WIDTH then
     a) In the paragraph add a newline before the last entity processed.
     b) Go back one entity.
     c) Continue at step 3 unless we're finished with formatting the
        paragraph.
   else
     Continue at step 4.

Felix