From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/21665 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steffen Wolfrum Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Feature request Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 11:58:10 +0200 Message-ID: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1122458325 18772 80.91.229.2 (27 Jul 2005 09:58:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 09:58:45 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Jul 27 11:58:35 2005 Return-path: 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 1DxigB-0002OG-2k for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 11:58:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D29F512820; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 11:58:22 +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 00385-01-6; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 11:58:19 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 238121281A; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 11:58:19 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 140C41281A for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 11:58:17 +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 00385-01-5 for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 11:58:16 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtprelay01.ispgateway.de (smtprelay01.ispgateway.de [80.67.18.13]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24FE212815 for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 11:58:15 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: (qmail 23656 invoked from network); 27 Jul 2005 09:58:14 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO [213.6.3.242]) (698580@[87.193.6.138]) (envelope-sender ) by smtprelay01.ispgateway.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 27 Jul 2005 09:58:14 -0000 Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on smtp.ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:21665 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:21665 Hans Hagen 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