Re: Floating picture in margin with no interference with text/sections

["Mikael P. Sundqvist" <mickep@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Mikael P. Sundqvist <mickep@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> I use mkiv which was installed today. Two questions.
>
> 1) Is it possible to put floating pictures in the margin without
> locking them in the current section? See the following example:
>
> %%% Start example
> \setuplayout[
> rightmargin=5cm,
> width=fit,
> ]
>
> %\setuphead[section][
> %aligntitle=float,
> %]
>
> \starttext
> \showframe
> \section{This is a short section}
> It contains one figure.
> \placefigure[inright,top][none]{A caption.}{\externalfigure[cow][width=4cm]}
> \section{This is another short section}
> It contains the same figure.
> \placefigure[inright,top][none]{A
> caption.}{\externalfigure[cow][width=4cm,height=6cm]}
>
> \section{This is a third section}
> \input knuth
> \stoptext
> %%% Stop example
>
> The result is given by
> http://tmp.oblandat.se/fig1.pdf
> If I uncomment (what I thought was the solution) the \setuphead part I get
> http://tmp.oblandat.se/fig2.pdf
> which looks better, but not as I want it. I want the sections and the
> text to look just as if there were no figures at all, and I want the
> figures to be stacked in the margin, the first one at the top of the
> margin, and the second one just below the first one. Is this possible?
>
> 2) If I really must not want a new page right after a section head
> (this happens in my long document, but no minimal example is given),
> is there any penalty or something i can set? This happens fairly often
> with the standard setup, it seems.
>
> Best regards, Mikael
>

Dear list,

I hate to reply to myself, but one week and no reply, so I do it.

Anyone knows if 1) is possible?

As for 2) maybe the \setuplayout[preset=strict] just suggested in
another thread does what I want?

Best regards, Mikael
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