From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/21617 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steffen Wolfrum Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Feature request Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 17:00:16 +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 1122390190 13824 80.91.229.2 (26 Jul 2005 15:03:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 15:03:10 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Jul 26 17:03:08 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 1DxQwh-0008Gi-Vx for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 17:02:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADAD2127A7; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 17:02:15 +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 19534-01; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 17:02:15 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC31E12788; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 17:00:26 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6764612788 for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 17:00:25 +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 19244-04-6 for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 17:00:24 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtprelay02.ispgateway.de (smtprelay02.ispgateway.de [80.67.18.14]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57BF61276B for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 17:00:24 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: (qmail 9953 invoked from network); 26 Jul 2005 15:00:23 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO [84.245.182.202]) (698580@[84.245.165.11]) (envelope-sender ) by smtprelay02.ispgateway.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 26 Jul 2005 15:00:23 -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:21617 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:21617 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. > > btw, do you know this trick? > > \starttext > > \hangsidefloat[2] > \placefigure[left][]{}{} \dorecurse{10}{\input zapf \par} > > \stoptext > yes I know. you once told me (as for the first time I asked for this feature two years ago...). true, it's a nice trick. and I used it in smaller publications. but it is not practicable with a lot of images (and this cases are the regular ones, unfortunately). typesetting with a lot of images wrapped by text is still a quite problematic task in ConTeXt/TeX . Steffen (P.S. actually my motivation to move to ConTeXt years ago was the hope that this image handling might be possible there. well, it wasn't ... )