From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Relative references to floats
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 22:29:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C0FF98C.3000304@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <huo2a6$cn0$1@dough.gmane.org>
Am 09.06.10 14:43, schrieb Andreas Schneider:
> Hello,
>
> is there currently (in MkIV) some way to have relative references to floats?
> I imagine something like "... as you can see \above[fig:somefigure]." which
> would print "... as you can see above." if the figure is above the current
> paragraph or "... as you can see below." if it is below.
>
> Maybe it's unusual to do that in books/papers, but I thought it might look
> better than to reference a page or a number if it is expected, that the
> figure is close by anyway.
>
> It would be nice if it could even go so far as to include page offsets ...
> "... as you can see on the next page" or "... as you can see two pages
> ahead".
>
> I have no real need to use this, it was just an idea to tidy up my text a
> bit (without risking wrong references when the layout changes and floats
> shift around). So if that is currently possible: awesome ... if not: no harm
> done :-)
>
strc-ref.mkiv:
%D A still very rudimentary|/|experimental forward|/|backward
%D reference mechanism is provided by the macro \type{\atpage}:
%D
%D \starttyping
%D ... \somewhere{backward text}{forward text}[someref] ...
%D ... \atpage[someref] ...
%D \stoptyping
Wolfgang
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