placefloat

[Hans van der Meer <hansm@science.uva.nl>]

(1) My intention was to place some material into the left margin on  
the page, but did not succeed.

Using \startmarginblock ... \stopmarginblock resulted in placement in  
the margin to the right, could not get it to the left.

The I experimented with the placeffloat mechanism and didn't succeed  
either.
Tested with the following example:

\starttext
\definefloat[sidenote][sidenotes]
This is the text before in the body of the document.
\placesidenote[inleft]{abc}{margintext}
This is the text after in the body of the document.
\page
on page two.
\stoptext

Summary of the results for the [position] parameter with the values  
given in the ConTeXt manual Table 12.1.
(a) in most cases the caption just appears in the middle of the page,  
not below the float.
(b) some values seem to work ok, these are here, top, bottom, page,  
opposite (appears 2 pages later), always, force.
(c) some values do not work or even give a TeX error:
	-- left margintext appears on the right side of the page (same as  
leftaligned?)
	-- right idem on the left side
	-- inleft the margintext and the caption seem to disappear completely
	-- inright the caption is not seen, margintext appears on the right  
side
	-- inmargin gives error undefined \doinmarginnormal
	-- margin gives error too many }'s


(2) Second question. Is there a mechanism whereby one can force the  
float to at least the next page when there is no room for it below  
the current point on the page?
This is useful for example when a figure belongs to the text of which  
only a few lines are on the current page. The figure is then better  
placed on the next page then somewhere on the current one.

yours sincerely,
dr. H. van der Meer