From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Maximum width of a caption
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 11:51:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54AA6C9E.2060805@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALBOmsYmxYyZaauyL_Q-zWty0pHcmK9ag8ykmSQRTH_Ymg0CZg@mail.gmail.com>
On 1/5/2015 11:22 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 12:30 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
>> On 1/3/2015 11:11 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Is there any way to set the maximum width of a caption? I would like
>>> to make sure that no figure caption exceeds, say, 75% of text width.
>>>
>>> Here's an example of "bad behaviour" in the second figure:
>>>
>>> \starttext
>>>
>>> \reservefigure
>>> [width=5cm,height=2cm,frame=on][force]
>>> {Some very small figure with not too much text: OK}
>>>
>>> \input tufte
>>>
>>> This can hardly be distinguished from the main text:
>>>
>>> \reservefigure
>>> [width=\textwidth,height=.2\textwidth,frame=on][force]
>>> {\input tufte}
>>>
>>> \input tufte
>>>
>>> Desired behaviour:
>>>
>>> \placefigure[force]{\input tufte}
>>> {\hbox to
>>> .75\textwidth{\hss\framed[width=\textwidth,height=.2\textwidth]{}\hss}}
>>>
>>> \input tufte
>>>
>>> \stoptext
>>>
>>> I've seen an option maxwidth, but only in connection to
>>> \externalfigure[...][maxwidth=...].
>>>
>>> I can cheat as on the third figure above, but that seems like an ugly
>>> approach to me.
>>
>>
>> can you test this a bit:
>>
>> \unprotect
>>
>> \setupcaptions
>> [\c!maxwidth=.75\hsize]
>
> Thank you very much. The patch that you sent me for strc-flt.mkvi
> seems to work as expected on a long document with many figures.
>
> The only exception are one-liners. The following creates a caption
> that extends to almost the whole text width:
>
> \placefigure
> % Why are there two spaces between "dummy" and "text"?
> {Some \dorecurse{7}{dummy } text}
> {\externalfigure[dummy][width=\textwidth,height=.2\textwidth]}
>
> As soon as slightly more text is added, it shrinks to the desired text width.
oneliners have a separate branch
> (But then again I'm not sure if that is a bug or a feature ;)
>
> Mojca
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-03 10:11 Mojca Miklavec
2015-01-04 11:30 ` Hans Hagen
2015-01-05 10:22 ` Mojca Miklavec
2015-01-05 10:51 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
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