Re: Vertically Aligning inmargin Text to Figure

[Malte Stien <malte@stien.de>]

Wolfgang,

Thank you for this. I can see what you are trying to do here, but this does not actually compile for me. Unfortunately, I don't know enough about the implementation of ConTeXt to track the problem down. I am getting:

! Undefined control sequence.

system          > tex > error on line 14 in file test.tex: Undefined control sequence ...

 4     	\copy\nextbox\rlap{\hskip\rightmargindistance\framed[frame=off,width=\rightmarginwidth,height=\nextboxht]{\floatuserdataparameter{text}}}
 5     	\stoplinealignment}
 6     \hbox}
 7     
 8     \setupfloat[figure][command=\FigureText]
 9     
10     \starttext
11     
12     \startplacefigure[title=Dummy figure][text=Margin dummy]
13     \externalfigure[dummy][width=.8\textwidth]
14 >>  \stopplacefigure
15     
16     \stoptext
17     


\syst_boxes_with_next_box ->\startlinealignment 
                                                [middle] \copy \nextbox \rla...
\strc_floats_place_packaged_boxes_indeed ...tbox }
                                                  }\strc_floats_set_natural_...
\strc_floats_finish_placement ...e_packaged_boxes 
                                                  \dostoptagged \global \d_p...
l.14 \stopplacefigure

Admittedly, I am on version 2012.10.20, which is about six months old now, but I am hesitant to update as I have a lot of co-workers using the same version and our configuration management processes dictate that we always update together.

Could you please help me out.

Thank you,
Malte.


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On 29/04/2013, at 9:04 PM, Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Am 29.04.2013 um 09:33 schrieb Malte Stien <malte@stien.de>:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I need to associate a bit of text with a figure in a book. The text is not---and cannot be---the figure caption (it's providing some explanation with respect to some labels in the figure). I have tried the following based on some other post on the mailing list:
>> 
>> \definepapersize[eightsquare][width=8in, height=8in]
>> \setuppapersize[eightsquare]
>> 
>> \setuplayout[
>> 	location=doublesided, marking=on, backspace=43mm, leftmargin=18mm,
>> 	leftmargindistance=4mm, rightmargin=35mm, rightmargindistance=4mm, rightedgewidth=6mm,
>> 	topspace=12mm, header=15mm,	footer=15mm, height=179mm, width=115mm
>> ]
>> 
>> \starttext
>> 
>> \startplacefigure[location=force, title={First dummy caption}]
>> \inmargin{First margin dummy}
>> \externalfigure[dummy][width=115mm]
>> \stopplacefigure
>> 
>> \stoptext
>> 
>> However, that results in the text being down the bottom of the figure. I need the text to be vertically aligned with the top of the figure. I have attached the resulting PDF for illustration purposes (is that okay on this mailing list? It's very small).
>> 
>> Any hints would be much appreciated.
> 
> 
> You can set the text in the margin with the second argument of \startplacefigure.
> 
> \define\FigureText
>  {\dowithnextbox
>     {\startlinealignment[middle]
>      \copy\nextbox\rlap{\hskip\rightmargindistance\framed[frame=off,width=\rightmarginwidth,height=\nextboxht]{\floatuserdataparameter{text}}}
>      \stoplinealignment}
>     \hbox}
> 
> \setupfloat[figure][command=\FigureText]
> 
> \starttext
> 
> \startplacefigure[title=Dummy figure][text=Margin dummy]
> \externalfigure[dummy][width=.8\textwidth]
> \stopplacefigure
> 
> \stoptext
> 
> Wolfgang
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