Re: stack marginals: text and figures

[Andy Thomas <andythomas@web.de>]

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> > I made a small example to show the behavior: 
> > 
> > […] 
> > 
> > This is a sentence.\margintext{This is a note in the margin.} Another 
> > sentence.\margintext{Another note.} \placefigure[margin][fig:one]{This is a 
> > small figure.}{\externalfigure[test][width=100pt]} 
> > \placefigure[margin][fig:two]{This is another small 
> > figure.}{\externalfigure[test][width=100pt]} \stoptext 
> > 
> > I also tried to do things such as \margintext{\placefigure...}}, but had no 
> > success. 
> 
> Why not? The following works here: 
> 
> This is a sentence. 
> \margintext{This is a note in the margin.} 
> Another sentence. 
> \margintext{Another note.} 
> \margintext 
> {\placefigure[here][fig:one] 
> {This is a small figure.} 
> {\externalfigure[test][width=100pt]}} 
> \margintext 
> {\placefigure[here][fig:two] 
> {This is another small figure.} 
> {\externalfigure[test][width=100pt]}} 
> 
> 
> Marco 


\margintext{\placefigure[here]…} does indeed work. I cannot even reproduce why I was not able to do it, but I assume I tried \margintext{\placefigure[margin]…} which does not make much sense... 

> > Dear ConTeXt group, 
> > 
> > I am trying to stack text and figures in the margin. After getting some help, I am able to setup the text just fine, the notes do not overlap. I am also able to stack figures, they also do not overlap. But figures and text does not 'know of each other'. They do overlap. 
> > 
> > I made a small example to show the behavior: 
> > 
> > […] 
> > 
> > \definemargindata [margintext] 
> > [ 
> > location=outer, 
> > width=100pt, 
> > align=flushouter, 
> > stack=continue, % or yes 
> > ] 
> 
> Use \setupmargindata to change the values of a existing command. In this example it doesn’t matter but that’s not always the case. 
> 
> Wolfgang 


I also changed \definemargindata to \setumargindata.

Andy

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