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Matthew Baker wrote:

> Is the following the correct procedure for making captions on floats
> left-aligned instead of centred?
> 
> \setupcaptions
>    [align=left]
> 
> It didn't seem to make any difference for me.  Using
> 
> \setupcaptions
>    [align=left,
>     width=max]
> 
> seemed to fix it for my figuretext environment (I only have one in the
> doc) but not for my placefigure environments (of which I have several).
> Is there another way?

This is the way indeed:

\setupcaptions
  [align=left,
   width=max]

\input tufte \placefigure{hi there}{} \input tufte

\startfiguretext{hi there}{}
\input tufte
\stopfiguretext

gives me two figures with left aligned captions. So it seems that
something else is interefering. Can you isolate the problem and send me
the file?  

> Thanks for the help on non-uniform columns, btw.  Playing around with my
> margins turned out to be tricky as they already swap with odd and even
> pages so I ended up doing a fixed-size hbox for the left column (with only
> images inside) and changed the hsize to do the right column.  Dirty, but
> it worked :)

Another dirty one: 

When you say \getpagestatus, you can use \ifrightpage to distinguish odd
even page actions, like in: 

  \getpagestatus \ifrightpage hello \else world \fi 

This is a two-pass thing, so you need at least two runs (automaticlly
done by texexec). 

Hans

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