From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/21615 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Feature request Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:21:26 +0200 Message-ID: <42E646E6.50206@wxs.nl> References: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1122387660 5059 80.91.229.2 (26 Jul 2005 14:21:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 14:21:00 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Jul 26 16:20:58 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DxQIi-0001Yy-EV for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:20:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04FDB127B4; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:20:56 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 18730-07; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:20:52 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D742127B0; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:20:52 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38F28127B0 for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:20:51 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 18957-01-2 for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:20:50 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mailrelay02.solcon.nl (maillb.solcon.nl [212.45.32.200]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D117127A8 for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:20:50 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from server-1.pragma-net.nl (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by mailrelay02.solcon.nl (8.12.11/SQL-8.12.11-5/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j6QEKkW0031271 for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:20:46 +0200 Original-Received: by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id B376024C57; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 15:36:08 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.52] (unknown [10.100.1.52]) by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 537761A19D for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 13:36:07 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.86.1/992/Mon Jul 25 23:48:49 2005 on mailrelay02 X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on smtp.ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:21615 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:21615 Steffen Wolfrum wrote: > Hi, > > it would be great if the \placefigure macro could be extended to > combinations like > > \placefigure{top,left} > > or > > \placefigure{bottom,outer} > > > The reason for this request is that we use ConTeXt a lot for > typesetting books from "arts and humanities". > > There we often have to place a lot of (more then 100) figures at > "fixed" positions like top-outer and bottom-inner, wrapped by text. > > I guess it's not a trivial feature to be implemented in TeX's > paragraph processing, but I know it might be worth the effort: > ConTeXt's way to deal with fonts and text is so superior that it > should be also accessible for disciplines that besides text also rely > on images - as the arts and humanities do. not trivial indeed, although it is more or less doable when you accept some limitations, e.g. if you have only text and graphics, use a grid, and have no other tricky stuff that can interfere (display math or so) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------