Hello,

I assume others might have need for this, so it might be a good idea to put this into the
core with a name of something like \widefigure or \ placewidefigure!

Just, a thought!

regards
	Keith. 

Am 24.07.2014 um 10:36 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com>:

> 
> Am 23.07.2014 um 17:48 schrieb Joshua Krämer <joshua.kraemer@gmail.com>:
> 
>> Dear list,
>> 
>> I have some big-width floats, and want them to span the regular text
>> width plus the outer margin.  I can position them manually with \kern.
>> Is there a way to make them automatically extend into the outer
>> margin?  I have tried different options for location=... without
>> success.
> 
{snip, snip}
> 
> You can use the command key for \setupfloat to apply a macro to the finished content of the float.
> 
> The purpose of this macro is to save the content and compare the width to the width of the text are,
> when the figure is wider then the available space use the \leftaligned or \rightaligned commands
> to let the content protrude to the outer margins.
> 
> 
> \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided]
> 
> \setuplayout[backspace=4cm,width=12cm]
> 
> \definemeasure[Widefigure][\textwidth+\rightmargindistance+\rightmarginwidth]
> 
> \setupfloat[figure][command=\FigureCommand]
> 
> \define\FigureCommand
>  {\dowithnextbox
>     {\signalrightpage
>      \ifdim\nextboxwd>\textwidth
>        \doifrightpageelse{\leftaligned{\flushnextbox}}{\rightaligned{\flushnextbox}}%
>      \else
>        \midaligned{\flushnextbox}%
>      \fi}
>     \hbox}
> 
> \showframe
> 
> \starttext
> 
> \startplacefigure
> \framed[width=.8\textwidth,framecolor=red]{Left margin}
> \stopplacefigure
> 
> \page
> 
> \startplacefigure
> \framed[width=\measure{Widefigure},framecolor=red]{Left margin}
> \stopplacefigure
> 
> \input knuth
> 
> \page
> 
> \startplacefigure
> \framed[width=\measure{Widefigure},framecolor=red]{Right margin}
> \stopplacefigure
> 
> \stoptext
> 
> Wolfgang
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