From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/21616 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Feature request Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:32:32 +0200 Message-ID: <42E64980.8050403@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 1122388449 7625 80.91.229.2 (26 Jul 2005 14:34:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 14:34:09 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Jul 26 16:34:03 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 1DxQVB-0003T5-Sg for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:33:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8130412799; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:33:49 +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 19244-01; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:33:49 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9335D12772; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:31:58 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD7BF12772 for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:31:56 +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 19058-04-2 for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:31:55 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mailrelay01.solcon.nl (maillb.solcon.nl [212.45.32.200]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4E3D1276B for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:31:55 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from server-1.pragma-net.nl (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by mailrelay01.solcon.nl (8.12.11/SQL-8.12.11-5/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j6QEVqi1027086 for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:31:52 +0200 Original-Received: by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 5B69224C70; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 15:47:14 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.52] (unknown [10.100.1.52]) by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 235E61B332 for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 13:47:13 +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 mailrelay01 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:21616 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:21616 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. btw, do you know this trick? \starttext \hangsidefloat[2] \placefigure[left][]{}{} \dorecurse{10}{\input zapf \par} \stoptext ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------