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At 23:24 10.09.2001 +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
>At 12:20 PM 9/10/2001 +0200, Eckhart Guthöhrlein wrote:
>>Oh, those .. floats! I have a rather large float which leaves nearly no 
>>room for text on the page. The problem: nearly - since context puts a 
>>single line of text below the float! According to the manual, the nlines 
>>parameter has a default value of 4, so this should not happen. Setting
>>
>>\setupfloats[nlines=10]
>>
>>has no effect, I still get this single line (as well as other floats with 
>>6 and 8 lines below...)
>>
>>Anybody any ideas what is wrong?
>>
>>I tried to put the float on a page of its own via the placement key 
>>'page', but then, as I reported some days ago, context immediately starts 
>>a new page where \placefigure occurs in my input file. This is more what 
>>I would expect from 'here'.
>
>Can you provide a minimal example? There can be subtle rounding error 
>changes in such cases, sometimes it helps to define the heigh tof the text 
>in lines instead of height:
>
>\setuplayout[lines=50]
>
>but i really need an example

First, an example demonstrating the nlines problem.

%\setupfloats[nlines=10]
\starttext
    \dorecurse{100}{Some text. }

    \placefigure[][refrfsjd]{Some figure.}
       {\framed{\vbox to 18cm{\vss\tfd\hfil High and mighty\hfil\vss}}}
    \dorecurse{250}{Some text. }

    Some text.
\stoptext

The figure is put on the second page with three lines of text. Uncommenting 
the nlines=10 doesn't change anything. Shouldn't the figure get a page 
without text if there is no possibility to get at least nlines?

Here, a text showing my problem with the 'page' key of \placefigure - it is 
typeset on three pages:

\starttext
    There will be a page break just in a moment!
    \placefigure[page][refrfsjd]{Well, the figure is in fact
       on a page of its own.}
       {\framed{\tfd High and mighty}}
    But this should go on the first page, too, I think.
\stoptext

Eckhart