From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Bleeding pictures as floats?
Date: Mon, 4 May 2015 22:59:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7CA88E8F-7FC0-434E-A781-2C029A7D8649@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BB023FE2-845D-44D6-84F7-59EC8949DE1B@fiee.net>
> Am 04.05.2015 um 13:54 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm <texml@fiee.net>:
>
> Am 2015-05-04 um 17:10 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com>:
>
>>> Is it possible to use the float placing mechanisms for pictures that go beyond the type area or even beyond the page?
>>>
>>> In the book I’m typesetting, most pictures need to fill the whole width of the page (i.e. plus 3mm bleed), but not all cover a full page.
>>>
>>> I don’t know how to tell \externalfigure or \placefloat a negative offset.
>>> Or can I use layers with floats? Of course the text should flow around the pictures.
>>
>> Does the details manual [1] answer your questions?
>>
>> [1] http://pragma-ade.com/show-man-27.htm
>
> Thank you, that helped, but not enough.
>
> I have now:
>
> \def\bleed{3mm}
> \def\maxWidth{\dimexpr(\paperwidth+\bleed)}
Use \definemeasure and \measure to set your own dimensions.
It is also bad style to redefine the \bleed command.
> \definefloat[bleedfigure][figure]
> \setupfloat[bleedfigure]
> [
> outermargindistance=-\bleed, % does that exist?
> leftmargindistance=-\bleed,
> rightmargindistance=-\bleed,
> default={cutspace,none},
> maxwidth=\maxWidth
> ]
>
> \def\topfig#1#2{\placebleedfigure[top]{#1}{\offset[topoffset=\dimexpr(-\topspace-\bleed)]{\externalfigure[#2][width=\maxWidth]}}}
>
> With that my pictures start at 0,-3mm, but they should start at -3mm,-3mm on a left page. Their maximum width is only \paperwidth, without bleed.
> Where’s my mistake?
Can you make a working minimal example.
Wolfgang
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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 [this message]
2015-05-06 5:06 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2015-05-11 11:53 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2015-07-30 9:49 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
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