Re: multi-page floats

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

On 31-5-2012 20:25, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
> Ok, some days later I'm still not where I'd like to be (and my deadline
> is overdue).
> Let’s resume:
>
> A running text is to be interrupted by spans of 3 pages.
> Postponing (\startpostponing) works well for that, but I need to switch
> off page numbering on two of that 3 pages - as far as I tried,
> \setuppagenumbering as well as \setuppagenumber doesn’t work within
> postponed sections.
>
> Further, these pages contain full-page pictures, i.e. I need them
> bleeding off the paper.
> Normally, \setlayer works well for that, but I couldn’t get layers
> working within postponed sections.
>
> Since I need these interruptions several times in a very similar way, I
> \def’ed that postponing stuff as a macro, but get errors that point to
> expanding problems (I never get those).
>
> I’d appreciate some pointers in which direction I should
> think/investigate further.
> E.g.
> - are there alternatives to postponing? perhaps multi-page floats (but
> at defined pages)?
> - is there a possibility for bleeding full-page pictures without layers?
> - can it work at all to change page numbering within a postponed page span?

maybe

\starttext

page 1

\page

\startmakeup[page]
     page a
\stopmakeup

\startmakeup[page]
     page b
\stopmakeup

\startmakeup[page]
     page d
\stopmakeup

page 2

\stoptext



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