Re: nlines parameter for floats has no effect

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

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

Hans

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