Re: multi-page floats

[Henning Hraban Ramm <fiee.visuelle@gmail.com>]

Am 2012-06-05 um 19:55 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster:

>> Sorry for coming back again and again, but I’m still stuck, and my  
>> deadline is overdue.
>>
>> * I need full-page pictures on defined pages in the middle of a  
>> chapter.
>>
>> * I don’t care if I must define "on page x" or "on the next right  
>> page after the current paragraph".
>>
>> - The only way for full-page pictures (i.e. bleeding over the page)  
>> that I know of is layers.
>> - The only way to interrupt a story with full-page content that I  
>> know of is postponing.
>> (makeups were a dead end so far - maybe they can help to get to a  
>> right page withput using \page[right])
>>
>> While each works for itself, I can’t get layers working within  
>> postponing.
>>
>> And when that works, I need to wrap it in a macro, since I alway  
>> need to define and postpone three sequential pages.
>
> \starttext
>
> \dorecurse{3}{\input tufte\par}
>
> \startpostponing
> \offset
>  [x=-\the\dimexpr\backspace+1cm\relax,
>   y=-\the\dimexpr\topspace+\headerheight+\headerdistance+1cm\relax]
>  {\externalfigure[mill][width=\the\dimexpr\paperwidth+2cm 
> \relax,height=\the\dimexpr\paperheight+2cm\relax]}
> \page
> \stoppostponing
>
> \dorecurse{5}{\input tufte\par}
>
> \stoptext

Great, I didn’t know \offset (or I forgot)!
This way it’s much easier!
Thank you very much!

Of course, the \offset stuff works in a macro, but not postponing. But  
I can live with three lines of code per insertion.

Greetlings,
Hraban
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