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From: Henning Hraban Ramm <texml@fiee.net>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Bleeding pictures as floats?
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 15:49:37 +0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6C8E04FC-E1B9-4742-A81D-07D74018E3A5@fiee.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7DFC1ED6-009A-4B73-9775-1A3757468F1E@gmail.com>

Hi, finally coming back to this project.

Am 2015-05-11 um 17:53 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com>:

>> \definemeasure[Bleed][3mm]
>> \definemeasure[maxWidth][\dimexpr \paperwidth + \measure{Bleed}\relax]
> 
> You don’t have to use \dimexpr because the measure macros already us it.

Ok, thanks

>> \definefloat[bleedfigure][figure]
>> \setupfloat[bleedfigure][
>> 	outermargindistance=-2\measure{Bleed},
>> 	%leftmargindistance=-2\measure{Bleed},
>> 	%rightmargindistance=-2\measure{Bleed},
>> 	maxwidth=\measure{maxWidth}
>> ]
> 
> There is only a “outermargin”  key but not “outermargindistance”.

Ok, thanks

>> With this (perhaps not minimal) example I get nearly what I want, but the image starts with the paper and is centered (x/y -1,5mm/0mm) where I want it to start on -3mm/-3mm on a left page, 0mm/-3mm on a right page. I thought my definitions should do that…
> 
> The space before the image isn’t fixed when you use \setuplayout[grid=yes] because ConTeXt has to change it to ensure the text after the floats stays on the page.
> 
> %\setuplayout[grid=yes] % uncomment to see how the space before the images changes

Ah, never had thought of that, thanks for the pointer!

But I want my pictures starting at that fixed position AND my (body) text keeping the grid.

Is that possible?



Greetlings, Hraban
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      reply	other threads:[~2015-07-30  9:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-04 10:53 Henning Hraban Ramm
2015-05-04 11:10 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2015-05-04 11:54   ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2015-05-04 20:59     ` Wolfgang Schuster
2015-05-06  5:06       ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2015-05-11 11:53         ` Wolfgang Schuster
2015-07-30  9:49           ` Henning Hraban Ramm [this message]

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