outer floats on doublesided pages UNSOLVED

["R. Ermers" <r.ermers@hccnet.nl>]

Hi,

Does anyone know if positioning figures  protruding into the outer margin can be done in mkiv?

Regards,

Robert


> Hi Jörg and Marco,
> 
> Thanks for your replies.
> 
> I have tried the chemistry textbook examples too, especially vignette seems to do what I want. I noticed you used mkii at the time, but I have mkiv now. Should I return to mkii if I want to obtain this?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Robert
> 
> 
> Op 10 sep. 2013, om 15:18 heeft Jörg Hagmann het volgende geschreven:
> 
>> Maybe what I did helps: see "Figures III" on
>> http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Biochemistry_textbook.  Although I used
>> mkII at the time.
>> 
>> Cheers, Jörg
>> 
>> R. Ermers writes:
>> 
>>> Hi Marco,
>>> 
>>> Thank you very much indeed for your reply. This topic apparently does not interest many people.
>>> 
>>> In your suggestion the figures are put in the outer margin in a vertical row below one another close to the top of the page, and not near the position in the text.
>>> 
>>> I want them positioned close to the place in the text which should flow around them. I have seen examples of this made by Context. This can be obtained by specifying default=left, or default=right, only I need the figures to protrude into the (outer) margin. This for some reason does not work under mkiv.
>>> 
>>> I still have some time, but my deadline is approaching.
>>> 
>>> Thanks again!
>>> 
>>> Kind regards,
>>> 
>>> Robert
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Op 10 sep. 2013, om 09:59 heeft Marco Patzer het volgende geschreven:
>>> 
>>>> On 2013–09–10 R. Ermers wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> I have problems with the placement of floats. I need them to be
>>>>> placed in the outer edge of the text, but Context puts them in the
>>>>> middle of the page. The outer, inner, outeredge, inneredge,
>>>>> commands do not work. Right and left do work.
>>>> 
>>>> You probably confused edge and margin. By default the edge has zero
>>>> width and has to be enabled using \setuplayout.
>>>> 
>>>>> Preferably the criterium option should also work
>>>> 
>>>> \setupexternalfigures
>>>> [location=default]
>>>> 
>>>> \setuppagenumbering
>>>> [alternative=doublesided]
>>>> 
>>>> \definefloat
>>>> [marginfigure]
>>>> [marginfigures]
>>>> [figure]
>>>> 
>>>> \setupfloat
>>>> [marginfigure]
>>>> [default=margin,
>>>> criterium=\marginwidth]
>>>> 
>>>> \setupcaption
>>>> [marginfigure]
>>>> [number=no]
>>>> 
>>>> \showframe
>>>> \starttext
>>>> \dorecurse{9}{%%
>>>>  \input knuth
>>>>  \startplacemarginfigure
>>>>    \externalfigure [cow] [width=\recurselevel cm]
>>>>  \stopplacemarginfigure}
>>>> \stoptext
>>>> 
>>>> Marco
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