Hello Marco,

Your code goes well beyond what I was looking for.

As I am working on a deadline right now, I am just going to use the 
frame trick to place the caption for wide figures.

However, expect to hear from me in future regarding this code.

Regards,
Devendra


On 01/20/2013 09:31 PM, Marco Patzer wrote:
> On 2013--01--20 Devendra Ghate wrote:
>
>> I am using a layout with wide right margin. For floats that are
>> \textwidth wide, I can place captions in the margin
>> using**\setupcaption[location=rightmargin,high/low].
>>
>> However, for figures that are
>> (*\textwidth+\marginwidth+\margindistance*) wide, I would like to
>> *place the caption in the margin below the figure*.
> For a recent project I had the similar requirements. I did not find
> a proper solution. I attached an example of the code I used.
> However, it has several issues:
>
> 1) Margin floats and texts overlay and need manual adjustment.
> 2) The baseline of the float description does not match the baseline
>     of the main text (fixed using  manual trial and error). I used an
>     ugly hack (toffset=7.5ex) to align the description vertically.
> 3) The \startplacesmartfigure is not very robust. My notes say "Do
>     not indent \startplacesmartfigure". I don't recall what the exact
>     issue was.
> 4) Probably many more that I haven't discovered, yet.
>
> Feel free to suggest fixes for the mentioned issues.
>
> Marco
>
>
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