Re: LaTeX float pages in ConTeXt

[Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>]

On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, Santy, Michael wrote:

> I've been playing around with the float placement options in ConTeXt, 
> but I could find no way to enable "float pages".  If you're not familiar 
> with float pages, here's a quick blurb:
>
> "If there are too many floats to fit on a page, LaTeX pushes them on to 
> the next page, and the next; eventually, floats may end up at the end of 
> the document. If the [p] option has been provided to individual figures 
> and tables, they may be pushed together onto a ?float page? that has no 
> text." - http://mintaka.sdsu.edu/GF/bibliog/latex/floats.html
>
> I'm not interested in using \setupfloat[figure][default=page].  It 
> forces all figures to a float page with one picture per page.  In latex, 
> the behavior that I desire can be specified with:
>
> \begin{figure}[htbp]
>  \includegraphics[width=5.0in, height=3.0in]{myfile.jpg}
>  \caption{Blah}
> \end{figure}

IIUC, ConTeXt float mechanism if significantly different from LaTeX's. In 
particular it has no qualms about placing floats on a page of their own. 
For example

\def\test{
\input knuth \endgraf
\dorecurse{20}{
\placefigure{Random figure}{}}
\input knuth \endgraf}

\starttext
\title{Here} \setupfloat[figure][default=here] \test
% Multiple figures get placed on a page of their own

\title{Top} \setupfloat[figure][default=top] \test
% A long standing misfeature that top forces floats to
% float on top of a title.

\title{Bottom} \setupfloat[figure][default=bottom] \test
% Again we can have multiple floats placed on a page of their own.

\title{Page} \setupfloat[figure][default=page] \test
% Only a single float per page

\title{All} \setupfloat[figure][default=here,top,bottom,page] \test
% If this makes you feel any better.

\stoptext

Aditya
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