Side-by-side floats?

Side-by-side floats?

[Giuseppe Bilotta]

Well, I begun playing with tables too. And of course I have a
question: is it possible to have side-by-side tables (more in
general, floats), each with its caption? I tried placing the two
table with different requirements (one left, one right), but it's
not *that* easy. How could I do it?

--
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

Re: Side-by-side floats?

[Hans Hagen]

At 04:43 PM 7/12/2001 +0000, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
>Well, I begun playing with tables too. And of course I have a
>question: is it possible to have side-by-side tables (more in
>general, floats), each with its caption? I tried placing the two
>table with different requirements (one left, one right), but it's
>not *that* easy. How could I do it?

Since you love to read the sourse:

\startcombination

or

\placesidebyside

aor candidates,

Hans

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Re[2]: Side-by-side floats?

[Giuseppe Bilotta]

Friday, July 13, 2001 Hans Hagen wrote:

HH> At 04:43 PM 7/12/2001 +0000, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
>>Well, I begun playing with tables too. And of course I have a
>>question: is it possible to have side-by-side tables (more in
>>general, floats), each with its caption?

HH> Since you love to read the sourse:

HH> \startcombination

HH> or

HH> \placesidebyside

HH> aor candidates,

But don't these set a single caption for both tables?

--
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

Re: Side-by-side floats?

[Johannes Huesing]

On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 11:59:48PM +0200, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
> 
> Friday, July 13, 2001 Hans Hagen wrote:
> 
> HH> \startcombination
> 
> But don't these set a single caption for both tables?
> 

They set a single caption for each figure. You can put the \startcombination
and \stopcombination within the argument of \placefigure if you want the 
whole thing to float, but you can set the caption argument of \placefigure
to {none} to avoid a common caption. Unfortunately, you will lose the 
ability to assign a number to each of your members of the combination.

Greetings

Johannes
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Re[2]: Side-by-side floats?

[Giuseppe Bilotta]

Saturday, July 14, 2001 Johannes Huesing wrote:

JH> On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 11:59:48PM +0200, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
>> 
>> Friday, July 13, 2001 Hans Hagen wrote:
>> 
>> HH> \startcombination
>> 
>> But don't these set a single caption for both tables?
>> 

JH> They set a single caption for each figure. You can put the \startcombination
JH> and \stopcombination within the argument of \placefigure if you want the 
JH> whole thing to float, but you can set the caption argument of \placefigure
JH> to {none} to avoid a common caption. Unfortunately, you will lose the 
JH> ability to assign a number to each of your members of the combination.

But the latter (one number for each) is one of the things I want.

--
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

Re[2]: Side-by-side floats?

[Hans Hagen]

At 12:00 PM 7/15/2001 +0200, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:

>Saturday, July 14, 2001 Johannes Huesing wrote:
>
>JH> On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 11:59:48PM +0200, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
> >>
> >> Friday, July 13, 2001 Hans Hagen wrote:
> >>
> >> HH> \startcombination
> >>
> >> But don't these set a single caption for both tables?
> >>
>
>JH> They set a single caption for each figure. You can put the 
>\startcombination
>JH> and \stopcombination within the argument of \placefigure if you want the
>JH> whole thing to float, but you can set the caption argument of \placefigure
>JH> to {none} to avoid a common caption. Unfortunately, you will lose the
>JH> ability to assign a number to each of your members of the combination.
>
>But the latter (one number for each) is one of the things I want.

Ah, how demanding. how about:

\starttext

\startbuffer
\startcombination
   {\externalfigure[koe.pdf][height=1cm,width=5cm]}
   {\placefloatcaption[figure]{Just a cow}}
   {\externalfigure[koe.pdf][height=1cm,width=5cm]}
   {\placefloatcaption[figure]{Just another cow}}
\stopcombination
\stopbuffer

\placefigure{none}{\getbuffer}
\placefigure{none}{\getbuffer}
\placefigure{none}{\getbuffer}
\placefigure{none}{\getbuffer}

\stoptext

The next piece of code should go into cont-new.tex. It is a new thing that 
i needed for pop of superscaled floats [click on float and get the big one] 
in a style i made recently [meant for a userguide for a blood pressure 
measuring device]. As the comment says: it's experimental code.

% Quite experimental !

% the split is needed when for instance the float goes into
% a multi page field and the list of figs becomes larger than
% one page: cycle between 'only flush when object ref ok'
% and 'one/many page fig list'; see "uguide finometer"

\def\placefloatcaption
   {\dodoubleempty\doplacefloatcaption}

\def\doplacefloatcaption[#1][#2]#3%
   {\setfloatcaption[#1][#2]{#3}%
    \placefloatcaptiontext[#1]%
    \placefloatcaptionreference[#1]}

\def\setfloatcaption
   {\dodoubleempty\dodosetfloatcaption} % beware, name clash
  \def\dodosetfloatcaption[#1][#2]#3% to do namespace for number/ascii
   {\doifelsevalue{\??kj#1\c!nummer}{\v!ja} % also handle trialtypesetting
      {\verhoognummer[#1]%
       \maakhetnummer[#1]%
       \global\let\flhetnummer\hetnummer
       \setgvalue{@fl@r@#1}%
         {\dofloatreference
          \redofloatorder{#1}%
          \doschrijfnaarlijst{#1}{\flhetnummer}{#3}{#1}%
          \doglobal\convertargument#3\to\flasciititle % \asciititle is global?
          \doifsomething{#2}{\rawreference{\s!flt}{#2}{{\flhetnummer}{\flasciititle}}}%
          \global\letvalue{@fl@r@#1}\relax}% nills
       \setgvalue{@fl@t@#1}%
         {\doattributes{\??kj#1}\c!kopletter\c!kopkleur
            {\labeltexts{#1}{\flhetnummer}}%
          \doattributes{\??kj#1}\c!letter\c!kleur
            {\tfskip#3}}}
      {\global\letvalue{@fl@r@#1}\relax
       \global\letvalue{@fl@t@#1}\relax}}

\def\placefloatcaptiontext     [#1]{\getvalue{@fl@t@#1}}
\def\placefloatcaptionreference[#1]{\getvalue{@fl@r@#1}}
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Re[3]: Side-by-side floats?

[Giuseppe Bilotta]

Wednesday, July 18, 2001 Hans Hagen wrote:
>>
>>But the latter (one number for each) is one of the things I want.

HH> Ah, how demanding. how about:

[snip]

Almost there! Now we only need a way to be able to refer to each
of the tables on its own. I have this sort of suggestion: sort of
"swapping" combination and floats. That is, instead of having a
float of combinations, provide a (different) command that gives a
combination of floats. So the user could do:

\startfloatcombo
\placefigure[fig1]{A cow}{\externalfigure[koe]}
\placetable[tab1]{A table}\starttable ... \stoptable
\stopfloatcombo

If you want to try something even more complex (or simpler) then
you could just provide for multiple floats on the same paragraph.
IIRC, floats are also used to "shape" paragraph, because they give
layouts like

+----+ Text Text Text Text Text Text
|    | Text Text Text Text Text Text
|    | Text Text Text Text Text Text
+----+ Text Text Text Text Text Text
Text Text Text Text Text Text a Text
Text Text Text Text Text Text a Text

or

Text Text Text Text Text Text +----+
Text Text Text Text Text Text |    |
Text Text Text Text Text Text |    |
Text Text Text Text Text Text +----+
Text Text Text Text Text Text a Text
Text Text Text Text Text Text a Text

Now, what about providing for

+----+ Text Text Text Text Text +----+
|    | Text Text Text Text Text |    |
|    | Text Text Text Text Text |    |
+----+ Text Text Text Text Text +----+
Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Txt
Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Txt

Or other "fancy" things like that?

--
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

Re[3]: Side-by-side floats?

[Hans Hagen]

At 12:38 PM 7/19/2001 +0200, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:

>Almost there! Now we only need a way to be able to refer to each
>of the tables on its own. I have this sort of suggestion: sort of

it's there already: just add an second arg [with a nice ref]

>"swapping" combination and floats. That is, instead of having a
>float of combinations, provide a (different) command that gives a
>combination of floats. So the user could do:
>
>\startfloatcombo
>\placefigure[fig1]{A cow}{\externalfigure[koe]}
>\placetable[tab1]{A table}\starttable ... \stoptable
>\stopfloatcombo

would be weird to implement

>Now, what about providing for
>
>+----+ Text Text Text Text Text +----+
>|    | Text Text Text Text Text |    |
>|    | Text Text Text Text Text |    |
>+----+ Text Text Text Text Text +----+
>Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Txt
>Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Txt
>
>Or other "fancy" things like that?

i have been thinking of that when doing the tex flow following backgrounds 
and it is possible, but first i want to fresh up the side float otr

Hans
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