From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/30277 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Floats Method Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 22:41:57 +0200 Message-ID: <44E0E015.6080706@wxs.nl> References: <44D080F2.8286.365E0B@wwl.musensturm.de> <44DED8BB.7090702@elvenkind.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1155588132 27741 80.91.229.2 (14 Aug 2006 20:42:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 20:42:12 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Aug 14 22:42:10 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org 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 1GCjGE-0002IJ-34 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Aug 2006 22:42:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91A8F1FCE8; Mon, 14 Aug 2006 22:42:09 +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 31893-05; Mon, 14 Aug 2006 22:42:03 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A39071FCC6; Mon, 14 Aug 2006 22:42:02 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6090C1FCC6 for ; Mon, 14 Aug 2006 22:42:01 +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 31927-01-2 for ; Mon, 14 Aug 2006 22:42:00 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 4AA181FCB1 for ; Mon, 14 Aug 2006 22:42:00 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.104] (unverified [10.100.1.104]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.7b8) with ESMTP id 1140 for ; Mon, 14 Aug 2006 22:42:00 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <44DED8BB.7090702@elvenkind.com> X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=-274017400 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 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-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:30277 Archived-At: Taco Hoekwater wrote: > wwl@musensturm.de wrote: > >> Hallo! >> >> In \setupfloats[] what exactly is the difference between textmethod >> and sidemethod? >> > > textmethod is used for floats inside the text flow, sidemethod for > sidefloats. > > >> Compared with the gridsize, why does a 1 point window (method=2) help >> when typesetting on grids? >> > > I assume it corrects for the \lineskip glue. > > >> Isn't 1% (method=1) much more in the most cases than 1 point? >> > > Yes it would be. Perhaps that one is because of \maxdepth, > but I am only guessing. The fact that there are two methods > could be simply a trial-and-error left over. > kind of; depending on the way a document is set up, rounding errors play a role, so the 1pt is taking care if that, while the .99 is th eold method; tricky stuff anyway 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------