float pages again

float pages again

[Florian Grammel]

Back in 2007 there was a discussion here on the list about whether context could do something like LaTeX’s float pages. 
http://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=ntg-context%40ntg.nl&q=subject%3A%22%5C%5BNTG%5C-context%5C%5D+LaTeX+float+pages+in+ConTeXt%22&x=0&y=0

In short these are designated pages that LeTeX puts in to collect abundant top- and here-floats. There can -- in contrast to contex’s default=page -- be more than one float on such a page and there is no running text.

In a LaTeX-setup correcponding to:

%\setupfloats[nlines=15]
\setupfloat[figure][default={here,top,bottom,page}]

\starttext

\section{First Section}

\input zapf

\placefigure {Blah} {\externalfigure[figurename][width=5.0in, height=3.0in]}
\placefigure {Blah} {\externalfigure[figurename][width=5.0in, height=3.5in]}
\placefigure {Blah} {\externalfigure[figurename][width=5.0in, height=3.5in]}
\placefigure {Blah} {\externalfigure[figurename][width=5.0in, height=3.3in]}
\placefigure {Blah} {\externalfigure[figurename][width=5.0in, height=3.3in]}

\section{Second Section}
\input zapf
\input zapf
\input zapf

\stoptext


pages 2 and 3 wouldn’t have body text on them.

Is there a possibility to have context remove body text from pages with floats when the space falls short of a certain number of lines?

Hans mentioned nlines in the old thread, but commenting it in doesn’t seem to have any effect.


Best regards,
Florian.


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Florian Grammel

Copenhagen, Denmark

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