From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/85753 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alexey Kryukov Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Some questions on float combinations Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 23:17:15 +0400 Organization: Moscow State University Message-ID: <20140103231715.a919622bdda8ef7b6f5ff7f3@yandex.ru> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1388776676 19889 80.91.229.3 (3 Jan 2014 19:17:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 19:17:56 +0000 (UTC) To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Jan 03 20:18:03 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([5.39.185.229]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VzAFu-0006jE-2T for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 20:18:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13514101FC; Fri, 3 Jan 2014 20:18:01 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id yoUX-ZLsgKSM; Fri, 3 Jan 2014 20:17:57 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FDD8101E7; Fri, 3 Jan 2014 20:17:57 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70E6F101E7 for ; Fri, 3 Jan 2014 20:17:55 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id zYT1i16SZtAC for ; Fri, 3 Jan 2014 20:17:54 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from filter1-utr.mf.surf.net (filter1-utr.mf.surf.net [195.169.124.152]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73D6A101E6 for ; Fri, 3 Jan 2014 20:17:54 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from forward9.mail.yandex.net (forward9.mail.yandex.net [IPv6:2a02:6b8:0:202::4]) by filter1-utr.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-9.4) with ESMTP id s03JHqLJ006856 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Fri, 3 Jan 2014 20:17:53 +0100 Original-Received: from smtp6.mail.yandex.net (smtp6.mail.yandex.net [77.88.61.56]) by forward9.mail.yandex.net (Yandex) with ESMTP id 24598CE0352 for ; Fri, 3 Jan 2014 23:17:52 +0400 (MSK) Original-Received: from smtp6.mail.yandex.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp6.mail.yandex.net (Yandex) with ESMTP id 05D4616400DC for ; Fri, 3 Jan 2014 23:17:51 +0400 (MSK) Original-Received: from unknown (unknown [188.123.230.185]) by smtp6.mail.yandex.net (nwsmtp/Yandex) with ESMTPA id TfHqfIQrdk-HpuC625u; Fri, 3 Jan 2014 23:17:51 +0400 X-Yandex-Uniq: 994007b7-40f8-48a5-81db-26a68ad346ec DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yandex.ru; s=mail; t=1388776671; bh=SI6xpXD1MV1v3kpl/yl1MmbmgzhlXRYSezGPcaEgACs=; h=Date:From:To:Subject:Message-Id:Organization:X-Mailer: Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=JrqR37AZrJl83JuwAyQiysFGUBGTmxzvhQZtlbbrs544I1z/1++m3OcF1kkYJX2vz LTKrOec3T3464Gnlhun9hriwubE7WHA/QBEGTQVdJfioNZ9FyLXqJPY6tVuwAQSkyJ Ovwn687/b5H3xwAYx16hVBBOfnP+CAcZt7iWI5SY= Authentication-Results: smtp6.mail.yandex.net; dkim=pass header.i=@yandex.ru X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.3.0 (GTK+ 2.24.22; x86_64-suse-linux-gnu) X-Bayes-Prob: 0.9999 (Score 4.7, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=2a02:6b8:0:202::4; country=RU X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 07L9vhQ5J - 77f3b13cf46a - 20140103 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:85753 Archived-At: Hi all, recently I finished typesetting a block of inset illustrations for a journal on history, which I first implemented in LaTeX and then moved to ConTeXt (I am using a version from TeXLive 2013 packaged with openSUSE 13.1). Basically I am greatly satisfied with the result, as the code looks much clearer now. However, I still see some things which can be done in LaTeX by a more natural way. First of all, is there a dedicated method to rotate an entire combination or floatcombination by 90 degrees? I see floats have a special option to control this, but float combinations don't (am I right here?). And if I enclose a float combination into a \rotate command, then the height of the rotated block seems to be incorrectly calculated, so that about a half of the block goes outside of the upper page boundary. Second, not all image combinations can be described by a simple matrix, and the documentation doesn't explain what to do in such more complex cases (nor the Wiki does). For example, in my document some pages have three images ordered in two columns: one relatively tall image side-by-side with two smaller ones. To make the things worse such combinations are usually placed on landscape pages. The obvious solution here seems to be to somewhow group two smaller images and then put them into a float combination. Unfortunately, this doesn't work, as floatcombination seems to ignore all enclosed boxing commands/environments and even nested float combinations. Finally I managed to achieve the desired layout by defining a set of parallel paragraphs, which fortunately worked even inside a \rotate command (columns and columnsets with embedded floats didn't). Still it would be nice to have a special interface allowing to combine floats and float combinations into larger blocks. -- Regards, Alexey Kryukov Moscow State University Faculty of History ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________