From: Steffen Wolfrum <context@st.estfiles.de>
Subject: Re: Feature request
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 11:58:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a06230905bf0d0adc77f7@[213.6.3.242]> (raw)
Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
> Steffen Wolfrum wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > it would be great if the \placefigure macro could be extended to
> > combinations like
> >
> > \placefigure{top,left}
> >
> > or
> >
> > \placefigure{bottom,outer}
> >
> >
> > The reason for this request is that we use ConTeXt a lot for
> > typesetting books from "arts and humanities".
> >
> > There we often have to place a lot of (more then 100) figures at
> > "fixed" positions like top-outer and bottom-inner, wrapped by text.
> >
> > I guess it's not a trivial feature to be implemented in TeX's
> > paragraph processing, but I know it might be worth the effort:
> > ConTeXt's way to deal with fonts and text is so superior that it
> > should be also accessible for disciplines that besides text also rely
> > on images - as the arts and humanities do.
>
> not trivial indeed, although it is more or less doable when you
>accept some limitations, e.g. if you have only text and graphics,
>use a grid, and have no other tricky stuff that can interfere
>(display math or so)
>
> > ok, agreed!
> >
> > But figure labels are needed (do they interfere?)
>
>
> figure labels are part of the float
>
> Hans
so, if it's more or less doable ... there is at least hope that we
can expect this feature in the next time, right?
Steffen
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Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-27 9:58 Steffen Wolfrum [this message]
2005-07-27 22:16 ` Hans Hagen
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2019-07-03 6:00 feature request Atsuhito Kohda
2019-07-03 6:35 ` Henri Menke
2019-07-03 6:42 ` Henri Menke
2019-07-04 5:18 ` Atsuhito Kohda
2019-07-04 5:48 ` Henri Menke
2019-07-05 23:31 ` Atsuhito Kohda
2019-07-04 15:16 ` Aditya Mahajan
2019-07-04 15:54 ` Alan Braslau
2019-07-05 23:44 ` Atsuhito Kohda
2019-07-05 23:35 ` Atsuhito Kohda
2011-11-11 15:34 Steffen Wolfrum
2011-11-11 15:53 ` Andreas Harder
2011-11-11 15:57 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2011-11-11 16:01 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2011-11-11 18:47 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2011-11-13 10:55 ` Steffen Wolfrum
2011-11-13 21:33 ` Andreas Schneider
2011-11-14 7:57 ` Steffen Wolfrum
2011-11-14 8:07 ` Hans Hagen
2011-11-14 9:22 ` Steffen Wolfrum
2011-11-14 18:38 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2011-11-15 22:03 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2011-11-15 22:11 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2011-11-15 22:28 ` Aditya Mahajan
2011-11-15 22:47 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2011-11-14 8:47 ` Aditya Mahajan
2011-11-14 14:03 ` Hans Hagen
2011-11-15 3:35 ` Aditya Mahajan
2011-11-15 5:43 ` Aditya Mahajan
2011-11-15 8:56 ` Hans Hagen
2007-07-05 17:41 Feature request John R. Culleton
2007-07-05 21:37 ` Patrick Gundlach
2007-07-05 22:27 ` John R. Culleton
2007-07-06 8:09 ` Patrick Gundlach
[not found] <a06210200bf0958f2bc0f@87.193.3.198>
2005-07-26 16:20 ` Mojca Miklavec
2005-07-26 22:56 ` Hans Hagen
2005-07-27 5:15 ` luigi.scarso
2005-07-26 15:33 Steffen Wolfrum
2005-07-26 22:38 ` Hans Hagen
2005-07-26 15:00 Steffen Wolfrum
2005-07-26 13:32 Steffen Wolfrum
2005-07-26 14:21 ` Hans Hagen
2005-07-26 14:32 ` Hans Hagen
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