On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 8:22 PM, Christoph Reller < christoph.reller@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: >> >> > On 11/29/2014 10:49 AM, Mark Szepieniec wrote: >> > >> >> I'm trying to set a default width for figures with \setupfloat. >> However, >> >> the command doesn't seem to be picking up the width specification, even >> >> though the manual indicates it accepts a width= argument: >> >> >> >> \setupfloat[figure][width=2cm] >> >> >> >> \starttext >> >> >> >> \placefigure{}{\externalfigure[picture.png]} >> >> >> >> >> >> \stoptext >> >> >> > >> > just >> > >> > \placefigure{}{\externalfigure[picture.png][width=2cm]} >> > >> > >> > >> >> picture.png just gets inserted at its native size, rather than scaled >> to >> >> have the specified width. What am I doing wrong? (setting minwidth >> >> and/or maxwidth doesn't seem to work either) >> >> >> >> Thanks in advance for any assistance. >> >> >> >> Mark >> >> Sorry, I should have mentioned I was able to work around it by doing >> exactly that, but I'd rather not have to edit all the \placefigure >> instances if I decide to change the width. >> >> Also I'd like to use a different default width for graphics, so >> \setupexternalfigures[width=XXXcm] wouldn't work well either. >> >> I realize I could define my own macros or something to solve this, but I'm >> just puzzled that setting width in \setupfloat[figure] doesn't work. Am I >> reading the manual wrong, or is is just not implemented yet or something? >> (honest question) >> >> Thanks for your response, >> >> Mark >> > > Hi Mark, > You can use \defineexternalfigure as in the following example. > > \defineexternalfigure[whatever][width=2cm] > \starttext > \placefigure{}{\externalfigure[picture.png][whatever]} > \stoptext > > See also http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Floating_Objects > > Christoph > > Thanks all for your responses. \defineexternalfigure looks like it does something very close to what I wanted. Googling it brought me to a mailing list thread where a question similar to mine was asked, so for future reference: http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2012/069446.html. So I guess my problem is resolved, but I'd still like to understand better why my earlier solution of doing \setupfloat[figure][width=2cm] didn't set a default for later instances of \placefigure. I feel like I might be missing some aspect of the ConTeXt philosophy, or I'm misreading the manual, or it's just a bug...?