Two misfeatures in placefigure

Two misfeatures in placefigure

[Aditya Mahajan]

Hi,

  I found two misfeatures in placefigure.

1) with \placefigure[top] the figure can float to the top of the page, 
even if the page starts a title or a chapter.

2) The paragraph after the figure is indented, even if it comes right 
after a \section.

For example,

\setupindenting[medium,yes]
\setupfloats[indentnext=no]
\starttext
\chapter{This is a test}

\section{Introduction}

\placefigure[top][test]
   {Sample Figure}{}
\input knuth
\stoptext

Notice that the figure is on the top of the page and the first 
paragraph of knuth is indented. I could not find any options to turn 
these features off. I think that (2) is hard to detect, and \noindent 
before the paragraph is a workaround, but I could not find any 
work-around for (1) other than moving the \placefigure invocation to 
somewhere later.

Aditya

Re: Two misfeatures in placefigure

[Taco Hoekwater]

Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>   I found two misfeatures in placefigure.
> 
> 1) with \placefigure[top] the figure can float to the top of the page, 
> even if the page starts a title or a chapter.
> 
> 2) The paragraph after the figure is indented, even if it comes right 
> after a \section.

For moral support only: Yes, twice!

Taco

Re: Two misfeatures in placefigure

[Hans Hagen]

Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>>   I found two misfeatures in placefigure.
>>
>> 1) with \placefigure[top] the figure can float to the top of the page, 
>> even if the page starts a title or a chapter.
>>
>> 2) The paragraph after the figure is indented, even if it comes right 
>> after a \section.
>>     
>
> For moral support only: Yes, twice!
>
>   
two misfeatures are below my threshold -) 

one problem with figures is that one (tex) never really knows where they end up but when i have time i will look into it 

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Re: Two misfeatures in placefigure

[Sanjoy Mahajan]

> >> 2) The paragraph after the figure is indented, even if it comes right 
> >> after a \section.

<wild speculation>

Thinking about how I prevented such parindents in my plain TeX days,
by using \ignorespaces\noindent in the definition of \section.  If
that's what ConTeXt does, perhaps the \placefigure code inserts a
spurious space, which normally doesn't show up because it's inserted
in vertical mode, but it is enough to confuse the \ignorespaces?

</wild speculation>

-Sanjoy

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         --Bertrand Russell, _War Crimes in Vietnam_, chapter 1.

Re: Two misfeatures in placefigure

[Aditya Mahajan]

On Wed, 25 Oct 2006, Hans Hagen wrote:

> Taco Hoekwater wrote:
>> Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>   I found two misfeatures in placefigure.
>>>
>>> 1) with \placefigure[top] the figure can float to the top of the page,
>>> even if the page starts a title or a chapter.
>>>
>>> 2) The paragraph after the figure is indented, even if it comes right
>>> after a \section.
>>>
>>
>> For moral support only: Yes, twice!
>>
>>
> two misfeatures are below my threshold -)
>
> one problem with figures is that one (tex) never really knows where they end up but when i have time i will look into it

Is it possible to provide an option, say topofnextpage, which is just 
like top, but does not attempt to place the figure on the top current 
page? This way, as an author, I can ask tex not to place the figure on 
the top of current page.

Aditya

Re: Two misfeatures in placefigure

[Peter Münster]

On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Aditya Mahajan wrote:

> 2) The paragraph after the figure is indented, even if it comes right 
> after a \section.

Hello,
this seems to be already in the bug-database:
http://context.literatesolutions.com/collector/65
Cheers, Peter

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