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[Steffen Wolfrum <xmailings@estfiles.de>]

Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:

>  Hi,
>
>  The last hour I fixed a couple of things that came up during the recent
>  dante/gutenberg tex conferences as well as added the table thingies
>  discussed here. (for the split lovers: there was a small bug in the patch i
>  sent earlier; actually the patch broke some of my existing files -)
>
>  the main as well as the beta files have been upgraded
>
>  Hans


Hi Hans,

that's good news.

I almost don't dare to ask, but...
do you think that you might have now a little time to look at the 
placefigure[top,left] topic?

The solution that you proposed some days ago unfortunately doesn't help much:
\hangsidefloat[2] \placefigure[left] {}{} \dorecurse{3}{\input ward\par}


What is needed is a kind of extension to placefigure[top] where 
figures are *still* placed top/bottom but *also* are surrounded by 
text (right or left).

I am really sorry for being persistent, but the main reason for me to 
switch from LaTeX to ConTeXt was that I thought that some has much 
more possibilities in placing figures in ConTeXt than in LaTeX.

And I was honestly surprised that this is not implemented yet, as it 
is such a frequently used feature - at least in the books of 
humanities, art history etc. it is very, very common.

You said that it should not be too difficult - and it really would be 
a great feature for ConTeXt!!

What do you think?


Steffen

P.S. Sorry, hope I don't annoy you too much...


>>2. Isn't it possible to make a kind of combination between the placefigure
>>options top and left (for example), so that a small picture can have text
>>floating around it but it is placed at the top of the page (like big
>>landscape formats would be with the top option)?
>>

...

>
>2. should not be too difficult, i'll look into it
>
>Hans
>
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