Found the answer—

location={here,left,3*hang}

does what I want nicely.

Sorry for the noise.

Alan


2017-04-06 14:27 GMT-04:00 Alan Bowen <bowenalan03@gmail.com>:

> I have a paragraph of text and I would like to place a float to the left
> so that there a some lines above the float, some beside, and some below. Is
> there a way to do this?
>
> What I have so far breaks the paragraph in two: one before the float and
> one beside it (with a few lines below). If I invoke the float before the
> paragraph, there are no lines above the float.
>
> \starttext
> Quisque facilisis erat a dui. Nam malesuada ornare dolor. Cras gravida,
> diam sit amet rhoncus ornare, erat elit consectetuer erat, id egestas pede
> nibh eget odio. Proin tincidunt, velit vel porta elementum, magna diam
> molestie sapien, non aliquet massa pede eu diam. Aliquam iaculis. Fusce et
> ipsum et nulla tristique facilisis. Donec eget sem sit amet ligula viverra
> gravida.%
> \startplacefigure[title={A cow},
> location={here,left},
> align=middle,
> number=yes]
> {\externalfigure[cow.pdf][width=.45\textwidth]}
> \stopplacefigure
> Fusce ultrices, neque id dignissim ultrices, tellus mauris dictum elit,
> vel lacinia enim metus eu nunc. Quisque facilisis erat a dui. Nam malesuada
> ornare dolor. Cras gravida, diam sit amet rhoncus ornare, erat elit
> consectetuer erat, id egestas pede nibh eget odio. Proin tincidunt, velit
> vel porta elementum, magna diam molestie sapien, non aliquet massa pede eu
> diam. Aliquam iaculis. Fusce et ipsum et nulla tristique facilisis. Donec
> eget sem sit amet ligula viverra gravida. Etiam vehicula urna vel turpis.
> Suspendisse sagittis ante a urna. Morbi a est quis orci consequat rutrum.
> Nullam egestas feugiat felis. Integer adipiscing semper ligula. Nunc
> molestie, nisl sit amet cursus convallis, sapien lectus pretium metus,
> vitae pretium enim wisi id lectus. Donec vestibulum. Etiam vel nibh. Nulla
> facilisi. Mauris pharetra. Donec augue. Fusce ultrices, neque id dignissim
> ultrices, tellus mauris dictum elit, vel lacinia enim metus eu nunc.
>
> \stoptext
>
> Alan
>