Re: 2 basic questions on placefigure options

Re: 2 basic questions on placefigure options

[Steffen Wolfrum]

Hi Hans,

did you find something into it?


Steffen



>  > At 14:17 03/09/2003 +0200, you wrote:
>  > >After reading the different manuals two questions still stay unanswered:
>  > >
>  > >1. Is it true that a figure with text flowing around it (placefigure
>  > >option left/right) has always to start with a beginning of a paragraph, so
>  > >that it is not possible to place it in the middle of a text when it is
>  > >mentioned there?
>  > >
>  > >2. Isn't it possible to make a kind of combination between the placefigure
>  > >options top and left (for example), so that a small picture can have text
>  > >floating around it but it is placed at the top of the page (like big
>  > >landscape formats would be with the top option)?
>  > >
>  > >I hope I just missed something...
>  >
>  >
>  > 1. indeed
>  >
>  > 2. should not be too difficult, i'll look into it
>  >
>  > Hans


>  Great, thank you.

>  Then (2) could be a bit of a practical alternative to the missing of (1).

>  Steffen

Re: 2 basic questions on placefigure options

[Hans Hagen]

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At 13:31 14/09/2003 +0200, Steffen Wolfrum wrote:

>did you find something into it?

hm, you are persistent -)

\starttext

\hangsidefloat[2] \placefigure[left] {}{} \dorecurse{3}{\input ward\par}
\hangsidefloat[2] \placefigure[right]{}{} \dorecurse{3}{\input ward\par}

\stoptext

i have to think about some way to feed such things into \place... directly, 
no time now

Hans

PS. unzip the new.zip file in .../base and regenerate the format
PS. quite untested on special cases, so only use it in controlled situations   

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Re[2]: 2 basic questions on placefigure options

[Giuseppe Bilotta]

Sunday, September 14, 2003 Hans Hagen wrote:

> At 13:31 14/09/2003 +0200, Steffen Wolfrum wrote:

>>did you find something into it?

> hm, you are persistent -)

> \starttext

> \hangsidefloat[2] \placefigure[left] {}{}
> \dorecurse{3}{\input ward\par}
> \hangsidefloat[2] \placefigure[right]{}{}
> \dorecurse{3}{\input ward\par}

> \stoptext

> i have to think about some way to feed such things into \place... directly,
> no time now

Suggested syntax: \placefigure[{left,2}]

or

\placefigure[left, hang 2]

In fact, for these kind of things (keyword + number)you don't to support =
key=value pair, do you?

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Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta