From: Mark Szepieniec <mszepien@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: How does \setupfloat work?
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 01:06:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAE4-1rWuBuL9hEmLHycc_Fs8c1hjDBB7ei-MyDDjtCYp7n0Cng@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.OSX.2.02.1411291829110.10021@nqv-znpobbx>
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On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 12:48 AM, Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu> wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Nov 2014, Mark Szepieniec wrote:
>
> 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...?
>>
>
> \setupfloat[figure] sets the values of \startplacefigure (and
> \placefigure), and not for \externalfigure. The width value for
> startplacefigure is not used anywhere.
>
> The default value of \setupfloats[width=...] is used when the float box is
> empty. So, the only scenario where the value of \setupfloats[width=...]
> will matter is the following:
>
> \starttext
> \setupfloats[width=2cm]
> \placefloat{}{}
>
> \setupfloats[width=10cm]
> \placefloat{}{}
> \stoptext
>
> Aditya
>
>
Thanks Aditya, that's very helpful and things make more sense now. Is this
stuff documented somewhere or did you consult the source code?
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-29 19:22 Christoph Reller
2014-11-29 20:46 ` Mark Szepieniec
2014-11-29 23:48 ` Aditya Mahajan
2014-11-30 0:06 ` Mark Szepieniec [this message]
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2014-11-29 12:38 ` Robert Blackstone
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2014-11-29 9:49 Mark Szepieniec
2014-11-29 10:03 ` Hans Hagen
2014-11-29 10:21 ` Mark Szepieniec
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