From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: switching layouts for a float
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:10:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CDAECA65-89CE-4882-B9BA-9A25407CC12C@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49BEE66B.5060907@studiochango.com>
Am 17.03.2009 um 00:53 schrieb Corin Royal Drummond:
> Hi Friends,
>
> Still working on having a travelogue with a text column on one side,
> and then a plate of color photos on the opposite page. Floats are
> working well for this with \startcombination[2*2]. My problem is
> that the text pages, have a wide margin to accommodate marginal
> graphics, and I don't know how to switch to a wide layout with tiny
> backspace and margin just for the combination floats. I'm trying: ...
> \definepapersize[wide][width=9in, height=7in]
> \setuppapersize[wide][wide]
>
> \setuplayout [location=middle, marking=on, topspace=.5cm,
> height=6.5in, width=4.5in, margin=3.5in, backspace= 2cm, footer=.
> 9cm, header=.9cm]
> \definelayout [photopage][width=7.5in, margin=.5cm, backspace=1.5cm, ]
> ...
>
> \starttext
> ...lots of text in chapters...
> \setuplayout[photopage]
> \placefigure{none}
> {\startcombination[2*2]
> {\externalfigure[yucatan1][width=.5\textwidth]}{A old church on the
> way from Merida to Celestun}
> {\externalfigure[yucatan2][width=.5\textwidth]}{A gorgeous decaying
> hacienda}
> {\externalfigure[yucatan3][width=.5\textwidth]}{Typical Yucatecan
> thatched adobe dwelling}
> {\externalfigure[yucatan4][width=.5\textwidth]}{Thached house detail}
> \stopcombination}
\page[yes]
> \setuplayout[reset]
> ...more text in chapters...
> \stoptext
>
> I suspect that this doesn't work because of the nature of floats,
> but then how to slap the float into a new layout setup with
> appropriate margins?
Wolfgang
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2009-03-16 23:53 Corin Royal Drummond
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2009-03-18 20:22 ` Hans Hagen
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