Floats that extend into the margin?

Floats that extend into the margin?

[Erik George Hetzner]

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.

Regards,
Erik Hetzner

Re: Floats that extend into the margin?

[Hans Hagen]

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

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Re: Floats that extend into the margin?

[Erik George Hetzner]

Hans Hagen writes:
 > see details.pdf which has a whole chapter on that kind of floatplacements
 > 
 > HAn s

I should have known that it would be in details.pdf.

Thanks. Next time, whatever it is, I'll check details.pdf
first!

Regards,
Erik Hetzner

Re: Floats that extend into the margin?

[Hans Hagen]

At 10:05 20/08/2003 -0700, Erik George Hetzner wrote:
>Hans Hagen writes:
>  > see details.pdf which has a whole chapter on that kind of floatplacements
>  >
>  > HAn s
>
>I should have known that it would be in details.pdf.
>
>Thanks. Next time, whatever it is, I'll check details.pdf
>first!


keep an eye on it; yesterday i also added a nunch of additional aligmnent 
options (for normal text floats)

Hans

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