Re: outer floats on doublesided pages

From: "R. Ermers" <r.ermers@hccnet.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: outer floats on doublesided pages
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 15:30:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <614F2B74-8C3F-4C6E-BE22-3878AC967F09@hccnet.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2sixcn7cm.fsf@unibas.ch>

Hi Jörg and Marco,

Thanks for your replies.

I have tried the chemistry textbook examples too, especially vignette seems to do what I want. I noticed you used mkii at the time, but I have mkiv now. Should I return to mkii if I want to obtain this?

Regards,

Robert

Op 10 sep. 2013, om 15:18 heeft Jörg Hagmann het volgende geschreven:

> Maybe what I did helps: see "Figures III" on
> http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Biochemistry_textbook.  Although I used
> mkII at the time.
> 
> Cheers, Jörg
> 
> R. Ermers writes:
> 
>> Hi Marco,
>> 
>> Thank you very much indeed for your reply. This topic apparently does not interest many people.
>> 
>> In your suggestion the figures are put in the outer margin in a vertical row below one another close to the top of the page, and not near the position in the text.
>> 
>> I want them positioned close to the place in the text which should flow around them. I have seen examples of this made by Context. This can be obtained by specifying default=left, or default=right, only I need the figures to protrude into the (outer) margin. This for some reason does not work under mkiv.
>> 
>> I still have some time, but my deadline is approaching.
>> 
>> Thanks again!
>> 
>> Kind regards,
>> 
>> Robert
>> 
>> 
>> Op 10 sep. 2013, om 09:59 heeft Marco Patzer het volgende geschreven:
>> 
>>> On 2013–09–10 R. Ermers wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I have problems with the placement of floats. I need them to be
>>>> placed in the outer edge of the text, but Context puts them in the
>>>> middle of the page. The outer, inner, outeredge, inneredge,
>>>> commands do not work. Right and left do work.
>>> 
>>> You probably confused edge and margin. By default the edge has zero
>>> width and has to be enabled using \setuplayout.
>>> 
>>>> Preferably the criterium option should also work
>>> 
>>> \setupexternalfigures
>>> [location=default]
>>> 
>>> \setuppagenumbering
>>> [alternative=doublesided]
>>> 
>>> \definefloat
>>> [marginfigure]
>>> [marginfigures]
>>> [figure]
>>> 
>>> \setupfloat
>>> [marginfigure]
>>> [default=margin,
>>>  criterium=\marginwidth]
>>> 
>>> \setupcaption
>>> [marginfigure]
>>> [number=no]
>>> 
>>> \showframe
>>> \starttext
>>> \dorecurse{9}{%%
>>>   \input knuth
>>>   \startplacemarginfigure
>>>     \externalfigure [cow] [width=\recurselevel cm]
>>>   \stopplacemarginfigure}
>>> \stoptext
>>> 
>>> Marco
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