Re: Where is the cow?

[Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>]

Am 06.03.10 21:56, schrieb Matthias Weber:
> Dear all,
>
> maybe a catchy subject line will get attention -:)
>
> Indeed, the cow seems to be missing in mk2 and is overly present in 
> mk4 in the sense that my own image cow.jpg within the same directory 
> as the
> document below gets ignored in favor of the cow that's present in the 
> mk4 minimals. These are minor issues, as it is relatively unlikely that
> I will need to include images of cows in my documents in the near future.
>
> What is bothering me however is my inability to combine figures 
> properly together with text in a controlled manner.
> I have a bunch ow smallish images (let's call them cows) which I'd 
> like to have surrounded by text. I am happy and actually
> prefer to do this manually instead of keeping my fingers crossed that 
> some automatic algorithm will do the job, but for that I need to
> know how which version of ConTeXt is placing the figures. What would 
> work for me: A way to split the text width into chunks that have fixed 
> widths,
> and fill these chunks individually  and vertically with figures or 
> text. This might be possible with tables, but there should be a 
> simpler way.
\setupexternalfigures[location={local,global,default}]

local   : currentdirectory + .. + ../..
global  : paths set with 'directory=...'
default : tex tree

Wolfgang

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