Bump.

This has come up a few times, but never resolved.

Is there the possibility of an option for placefigure to discard 
remaining depth at a page break?

-- 
Rik

On 2015-08-25 10:14, Rik Kabel wrote:
> On 2015-08-25 03:41, Andreas Becker wrote:
>> ConTeXt version: 2015.08.21 19:57
>>
>> In the PDF output of the following code, the first text line on the second page only
>> spans half the textwidth. However, below the figure, the text should span the
>> whole width.
>>
>> \starttext
>> \placefigure[right][]{caption}
>> {
>> \externalfigure[nop][width=0.5\textwidth,height=19cm]
>> }
>> \input lorem
>> \input lorem
>> \input lorem
>> \stoptext
>>
>>
> Andreas,
>
> This is a long-recognized issue that appears to have no resolution. It 
> was previously raised by Gerhard Kugler in March 2007 (figure occupies 
> space into next page 
> <http://www.mail-archive.com/ntg-context%40ntg.nl/msg21273.html>) and 
> by me in March 2014 (Caption whitespace overflows page 
> <http://www.mail-archive.com/ntg-context%40ntg.nl/msg73904.html>) and 
> possibly by others I did not come across.
>
> The only resolution I have found is to reduce the size of the figure 
> enough to prevent the reserved space from intruding on the text area 
> of the next page.
>
> -- 
> Rik Kabel