From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/26823 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sanjoy Mahajan Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: placefigure feature request ? Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 11:48:53 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4432E3BB.7070603@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1144254629 32608 80.91.229.2 (5 Apr 2006 16:30:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 16:30:29 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Apr 05 18:30:25 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FRAtd-00056s-FD for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Apr 2006 18:30:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E743212796; Wed, 5 Apr 2006 18:30:16 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 21521-06; Wed, 5 Apr 2006 18:30:16 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE778127A3; Wed, 5 Apr 2006 17:49:04 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76342127A3 for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2006 17:49:03 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 20514-02-4 for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2006 17:49:01 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtpauth07.mail.atl.earthlink.net (smtpauth07.mail.atl.earthlink.net [209.86.89.67]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 2E75712791 for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2006 17:49:00 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [18.90.6.59] (helo=approximate.corpus.cam.ac.uk) by smtpauth07.mail.atl.earthlink.net with asmtp (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.34) id 1FRAFf-0000nL-4k; Wed, 05 Apr 2006 11:48:59 -0400 Original-Received: from sanjoy by approximate.corpus.cam.ac.uk with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FRAFZ-00030B-Ua; Wed, 05 Apr 2006 11:48:53 -0400 Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 04 Apr 2006 23:23:07 +0200." <4432E3BB.7070603@wxs.nl> X-Mailer: MH-E 7.93; nmh 1.1; GNU Emacs 21.4.1 X-ELNK-Trace: dcd19350f30646cc26f3bd1b5f75c9f474bf435c0eb9d47848d7ba2f7fbb8675aca8559d59c590138831aeffa39aee59350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 18.90.6.59 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:26823 Archived-At: Hans Hagen wrote: > Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: > > Here \figuremacro figures out (sorry) that narrow figures go in the > > margin and wide figures go at the top of the page. But the page will > > look funny: The narrow figure will be numbered, say, Figure 10, and > > the wide figure will be Figure 11, but Figure 11 will appear before > > Figure 10 on the page. Which is disconcerting to the reader. > > > this 'choose between locations' feature is kind of present but only with > 'here' as fallback but it's trivial to make that configurable: > [useful code snipped] Thanks very much -- I'll work through the code and learn some conTeXt to boot. > no, actually floats will be renumbered automatically unless nocheck is > given; the problem is that the order in which margins etc flush plays > a role then. > > I can imagine another solution but i need a dark rainy non-busy day > for that Taco's msg about no meaning yes made me wonder: what's the special case or problem you were thinking of? Perhaps Holland in the winter can offer the dark, rainy day (just like here in Boston, USA) but the 'non-busy' may be more difficult. -Sanjoy `A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.' - Bertrand de Jouvenal