Equivalent packages

• floating figures (see #458)

  • built-in in LaTeX (placement on separate page with collected floats, top of split page, floats at the end)
  • placeins for \\FloatBarrier

• text flow around figure in pagagraph (drop caps as special case #394)

  • wrapfig in LaTeX
  • lettrine for drop caps

  UPDATE: Since SILE 0.12.1, a dropcaps package is provided, with much more robust functionality than the previous floating frame mechanism formerly used for this.

• TikZ (#437)

• tables (#45)

  • ctable
  • tabu

  UPDATE: 3rd-party package ptable.sile is a possible way for addressing tables, with SILE 0.14.0 or upper.

• flexible footnotes (#372)

  • footmisc
  • endnotes

• built-in document classes (#455)

  • book, article, ...