From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/20007 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Tremblay Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: how to control placement of floats Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 10:18:01 -0400 Message-ID: <20050420141800.GA25817@localhost.localdomain> References: <20050419204942.GB14727@localhost.localdomain> <42658523.2060108@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1114006523 2007 80.91.229.2 (20 Apr 2005 14:15:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 14:15:23 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Apr 20 16:15:17 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DOFxc-0003GZ-0H for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 16:13:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A5A61280D; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 16:18:06 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 21438-06; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 16:18:02 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6E77127F9; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 16:18:02 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9272127F9 for ; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 16:18:01 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 21476-02 for ; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 16:18:01 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from rdsmtp.iglou.com (rdsmtp.iglou.com [192.107.41.63]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1A6A127E0 for ; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 16:18:00 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [192.107.41.3] (helo=iglou1.iglou.com) by rdsmtp.iglou.com with esmtp (8.12.5/8.12.5) id 1DOG1g-0001Er-3E for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 10:18:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [64.253.97.143] (helo=localhost.localdomain) by iglou1.iglou.com with esmtp (8.12.5/8.12.5) id 1DOG1f-00037C-Hv for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 10:17:59 -0400 Original-Received: by localhost.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 501) id 4049A1BBC2; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 10:18:01 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Mail-Followup-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42658523.2060108@wxs.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:20007 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:20007 On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 12:24:35AM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: > From: Hans Hagen > > Paul Tremblay wrote: > >The manual and others have given good advice on how to do the most > >basic placment of floats, such as forcing it onto a new page. > > > >How does one get even more control. For example, if I want a > >particular table to have 2 inches of space from the left margin, or if > >I want to center my figures. > > see details.pdf This is the best I can come up with. This seems like a complete hack. For one thing, the caption does not move with the graphic. \placefigure [here]{Portrait of Thoreau}{\setlayer[graphics][hoffset=1in, voffset=1in]{\externalfigure[thoreau ref]}} Paul -- ************************ *Paul Tremblay * *phthenry@iglou.com * ************************