From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/8064 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: \placefigure unpredicatable. Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 22:30:00 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20020527222829.039d69d0@server-1> References: <200205211003.18202.john@wexfordpress.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035398500 24497 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:41:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:41:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: John Culleton In-Reply-To: <200205211003.18202.john@wexfordpress.com> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:8064 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:8064 At 10:03 AM 5/21/2002 -0400, John Culleton wrote: >I have found the \placefigure command to be somewhat unpredictable. >I am doing book reviews on 11 x8.5 format (i.e. landscape), double column. >At the head of each review on the left side of the column I have some short >lines ended with \hfil\break. On the right side I have a thumbnail of the >book, typically 1.5in x 2in. > >If I use \placefigure the picture ends up in the middle and the short lines >fall under it. If however I do something like: >----------------------------------- >\subsubsection{Get Published!} >\rightline{\pdfimage{sansaveria.png}} >\vglue -2in >Penny C. Sansavieri\bk >1stBooks Library October 2001\bk >Paperback 6 x 9 165pp. indexed \$15.54\bk wait (or try) for columnsets, they are more robust and give you al lot of control over floats also, processing multi columns in grid mode is more robust too with regards to floats (the multi column mechanism tries hard to balance so glue spoils this game) 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------