From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/25380 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans van der Meer Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: placefloat Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 14:33:26 +0100 Message-ID: <6D7F0999-7E76-4137-9495-1489C70F9BDA@science.uva.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1137677839 26618 80.91.229.2 (19 Jan 2006 13:37:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 13:37:19 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Jan 19 14:37:17 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EzZw4-0006Ct-MT for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 14:34:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE3631287C; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 14:34:43 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 32179-07-7; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 14:34:39 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE73712827; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 14:34:39 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 353E912827 for ; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 14:34:39 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 32179-07-6 for ; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 14:34:38 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp.science.uva.nl (smtp.science.uva.nl [146.50.4.84]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 30ABE127A9 for ; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 14:34:37 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from 118-250.uva.surfnetthuis.nl [145.98.118.250] by smtp.science.uva.nl with ESMTP (sendmail 8.11.6p2/config 11.36). id k0JDYXx27166; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 14:34:33 +0100 X-Organisation: Faculty of Science, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands X-URL: http://www.science.uva.nl/ Original-To: NTG ConTeXt X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:25380 Archived-At: (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