On 2012-05-29 11:37, Andy Thomas wrote:
> On 28.05.2012, at 19:02, Hans Hagen wrote:
> 
> > On 28-5-2012 18:44, Philipp Gesang wrote:
> >> Hi Andy,
> >> 
> >> On 2012-05-27 17:57, Andy Thomas wrote:
> >>> Hello,
> >>> 
> >>> could someone point out to me, where in the standalone
> >>> installation the 'margin float placement' algorithm lives.
> >> 
> >> it depends:
> >>   Floats: strc-flt.mkvi
> >>   Side floats: page-sid.mkiv
> >>   Margin data (as in your example): typo-mar.mkiv
> >> 
> >> and their respective .lua companions. I suspect you will be
> >> interested in the function „inject()“ (part of the finalizer) in
> >> typo-mar.lua.
> > 
> > keep in mind that this is not finished yet i.e. there is no api at the lua end yet
> > 
> >>>> is there a way for margintext to 'respect' the lower border
> >>>> of the page and push the margintext up, pushing other margintexts
> >>>> upwards while doing so?
> >> 
> >> +1, I’m curious too whether this can be done.
> > 
> > maybe some day when I'm looking into the page builder code
> > 
> > Hans
> 
> Is it possible, as a workaround for now, to make every
> \margintext call to virtually occur at the first line of the
> page? Then, they are stacked in sequence in the margin from the
> top of the page down, but on the page they occur.

Don’t marginblocks behave like that?

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\definepapersize[wissenschaft][width=170mm,height=240mm]
\setuppapersize [wissenschaft]

\setuplayout
[topspace=40pt,
 header=0pt,
 headerdistance=0pt,
 backspace=42pt,
 leftmargin=0pt,
 width=280pt,
 height=560pt,
 rightmargindistance=20pt,
 rightmargin=100pt,
 footer=0pt]

\setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided]

%% Margin block setup.
\setupmarginblock[
  style=bold,
  align=outer,
]

\startbuffer [mblock_demo]
  This is too low, if there are many words in this note.
\stopbuffer

\starttext \showframe

\input tufte
\input tufte %% first one’s at top of first page
\input tufte\startmarginblock\getbuffer[mblock_demo]\stopmarginblock

\page %% next one at top of second, third one immediately below
\input tufte\startmarginblock\getbuffer[mblock_demo]\stopmarginblock
\input tufte\startmarginblock\getbuffer[mblock_demo]\stopmarginblock
\input tufte

\stoptext
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Regards,
Philipp

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