From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/5601 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: nlines parameter for floats has no effect Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 23:24:05 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20010910232304.026a8f38@server-1> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20010910121523.00a8dae0@pop.t-online.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035396180 2963 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:03:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:03:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ConTeXt mailing list Original-To: e_w_g@t-online.de (Eckhart =?iso-8859-1?Q?Guth=F6hrlein?= ) In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20010910121523.00a8dae0@pop.t-online.de> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:5601 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:5601 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------