From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/12941 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Floats that extend into the margin? Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 11:46:51 +0200 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.1.20030820114622.02c42f98@server-1> References: <16194.24548.111569.707123@famine.OCF.Berkeley.EDU> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1061378572 2091 80.91.224.253 (20 Aug 2003 11:22:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 11:22:52 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Wed Aug 20 13:22:51 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19pR3D-00024n-00 for ; Wed, 20 Aug 2003 13:22:51 +0200 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51E8510B3C; Wed, 20 Aug 2003 13:22:46 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from mail.solcon.net (mail.solcon.net [212.45.33.5]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4285910AFC for ; Wed, 20 Aug 2003 13:16:06 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from server-1.pragma-net.nl (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by mail.solcon.net (8.11.6/8.9.3) with ESMTP id h7KBG0Q09430 for ; Wed, 20 Aug 2003 13:16:01 +0200 Original-Received: from laptop-3.wxs.nl (laptop-3.pragma-net [10.100.1.191]) by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EEEC219D9 for ; Wed, 20 Aug 2003 13:15:59 +0200 (CEST) X-Sender: hagen-mail@server-1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl In-Reply-To: <16194.24548.111569.707123@famine.OCF.Berkeley.EDU> Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:12941 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:12941 At 10:35 19/08/2003 -0700, Erik George Hetzner wrote: >Hello all, > >I am wondering if anybody has had any luck with making floats that >extend into the margin? It's a pretty common effect and looks like: > >xxxxxxxxxxxx >xxxxxxxxxxxx >xxxxxxxx PPPPPP >xxxxxxxx PPPPPP >xxxxxxxxxxxx > >Where x is the text and P is a picture. I am halfway there by >specifying a negative "margin" in \setupfloats and using a "right" or >"left" float. This gets the text in the proper position. What I need >to do is to move the float a certain amount to the right or left. I >have tried making a "top" specification of "\vbox\bgroup\hskip >Xpc\bgroup\vbox\bgroup" in my \setupfloat definition (and a "bottom" >definition to close the groups). Is this what "top" and "bottom" are >for? I must admit that I am not familiar with ConTeXt's float >mechanism. > >I hope that this is clear to people. Any help is welcome. see details.pdf which has a whole chapter on that kind of floatplacements HAn s ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------