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From: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: [NTG-context] Re: placing \externalfigure
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2023 21:17:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55dda40f-8721-4f51-920f-9a0bf6918fe2@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231112173054.426334b0@homerow>

On 11/12/2023 5:30 PM, Marco Patzer wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Nov 2023 16:34:00 +0100
> Hans van der Meer via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl> wrote:
> 
>> In placing \externalfigure[file] I observe the figure is placed with
>> its bottom on the baseline, thus:
>>
>>      [externalfigure]
>> --------------------------- baseline
>>
>> I looked into the option list of setupexternalfigure but could not
>> find one whereby the location with respect to the baseline is either
>> top, bottom or center.
> 
> Maybe this is what you're looking for:
> 
> \useMPlibrary [dum]
> \setuplayout  [grid=yes]
> \showgrid
> 
> \starttext
>    foo \externalfigure[][][location=high]   bar \blank [5*line]
>    foo \externalfigure[][][location=middle] bar \blank [5*line]
>    foo \externalfigure[][][location=low]    bar
> \stoptext

This variant:

     \useMPlibrary [dum]

     \starttext

     foo \figuresymbol[] bar

     foo \figuresymbol[][height=1cm,depth=\strutdepth] bar

     foo \figuresymbol[][height=3ex,depth=2ex] bar

     \stoptext

gives the lines proepr dimensions.

Hans

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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-11-12 15:34 [NTG-context] " Hans van der Meer via ntg-context
2023-11-12 16:30 ` [NTG-context] " Marco Patzer
2023-11-12 20:17   ` Hans Hagen [this message]

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