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From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: place figures at the end of document
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:56:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080118205632.ffafbb16.schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b11f605c0801180836x243072eu428c407b3d2c6fcb@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:36:26 +0100
"Peter I. Hansen" <peterih@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Is there a way in ConTeXt to place figures (and other floats) at the
> very end of the document?
> 
> More specifically I would like to keep on having to placefigure code
> at the relevant place in the text where I would normally typeset with
> the option [here], but sometimes readers want all figures moved to the
> end of the document and it would be handy if this could be done by
> changing a keyword.
> 
> thanks, Peter

Interesting but very hard topic, I found a solution but it did only
work for a few pictures.

\unprotect

\installfloathandler {save} \somesavefloat

\def\placesomesavefloat{\OTRcommand\somesavefloat}

%\def\somesavefloat[#1]{\dosavefloat}
\def\somesavefloat{\placesomesavefloat}

\def\somesavefloat[#1]%
  {\global\setbox\floatlist\vbox
     {\nointerlineskip
      \unvbox\floatlist
      \uncenteredfloatbox}}

%\def\OTRONEsomesavefloat[#1]{\savefloat}
\def\OTRONEsomesavefloat[#1]{\setbox\floatbox\vbox{\box\floatbox}}

\def\placesavedfloats{\box\floatlist}

%\def\placesavedfloats
%  {\loop\ifdim\ht\floatlist>0pt
%     \vsplit\floatlist to\lineheight
%   \repeat}

\protect

\starttext

\dorecurse{4} % 5 and more did fail
  {\input knuth\par
   \expanded{\placefigure[save]{Figure \recurselevel}{\blackrule[width=6cm,height=4cm]}}}

\page

\placesavedfloats

\stoptext

Wolfgang
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-18 19:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-18 16:36 Peter I. Hansen
2008-01-18 19:56 ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2008-01-19 18:59 ` Carsten Fechtmann

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