Force bottom float to be at the bottom

Force bottom float to be at the bottom

[Mikael Sundqvist]

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Hi,

I'm defining a bottomfigure with default=bottom, but it does not always
seem to work (example below). If the float does not fit on the page, it
appears instead in the top of the next page. Can I force it to be in the
bottom of the next page? That is, can I setup a float that is always at the
bottom of the page? I hope what I ask makes sense.

/Mikael

\useMPlibrary[dum]

\definefloat[bottomfigure][bottomfigures][figure]

\setupfloat[bottomfigure][default=bottom]

\starttext
\dorecurse{4}{\samplefile{knuth}}

\startplacebottomfigure
\externalfigure[dummy][width=\textwidth]
\stopplacebottomfigure

\samplefile{knuth}
\stoptext

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Re: Force bottom float to be at the bottom

[Henning Hraban Ramm]

> Am 07.09.2020 um 14:08 schrieb Mikael Sundqvist <mickep@gmail.com>:
> 
> I'm defining a bottomfigure with default=bottom, but it does not always seem to work (example below). If the float does not fit on the page, it appears instead in the top of the next page. Can I force it to be in the bottom of the next page? That is, can I setup a float that is always at the bottom of the page? I hope what I ask makes sense.

AFAIK location=bottom is always unreliable, it’s a known limitation and you can’t change that.

Do you need it as a float (with caption and all)? Otherwise you could try absolute placement with a layer.

Hraban
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Re: Force bottom float to be at the bottom

[Mikael Sundqvist]

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Den lör 12 sep. 2020 22:04Henning Hraban Ramm <texml@fiee.net> skrev:

>
>
> > Am 07.09.2020 um 14:08 schrieb Mikael Sundqvist <mickep@gmail.com>:
> >
> > I'm defining a bottomfigure with default=bottom, but it does not always
> seem to work (example below). If the float does not fit on the page, it
> appears instead in the top of the next page. Can I force it to be in the
> bottom of the next page? That is, can I setup a float that is always at the
> bottom of the page? I hope what I ask makes sense.
>
> AFAIK location=bottom is always unreliable, it’s a known limitation and
> you can’t change that.
>
> Do you need it as a float (with caption and all)? Otherwise you could try
> absolute placement with a layer.
>
> Hraban
>

Thank you for your mail, Hraban! It is good to know that the bottom key
might be unreliable.

I wanted to be able to put floats in bottom, with (unnumbered) captions on
top in margin. A bit dual to the mail I sent to the list about topfigures
with captions in the margin. As you say, maybe using layers is the best way
to obtain what I want. I'm not sure, though, how to place a figure in a
layer at the bottom and to prohibit text to go there.

/Mikael

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