From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Skipped figure numbers
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 17:51:07 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.OSX.2.02.1603311750020.16335@nqv-znpobbx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AF0B512B-0AC3-4D61-A426-A78890A44293@nicholware.co.uk>
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On Thu, 31 Mar 2016, Aidan Nichol wrote:
>> On Wed, 30 Mar 2016, Aidan Nichol wrote:
>>
>>> I have been looking at various options for controlling how figures are placed on a page and based on answers to similar questions in this mailing list I tried various options. The most flexible one seems to be using tables e.g.
>>>
>>> \setupexternalfigures[location={default}]
>>>
>>> \starttext
>>>
>>> \placefigure[]{}{\externalfigure[hacker][height=1in]}
>>>
>>> \startxtable[frame=off,align=low]
>>> \startxrow
>>> \startxcell[ny=2]
>>> \placefigure[force][]{left twoup}{\externalfigure[mill][height=4in]}
>>> \stopxcell
>>> \startxcell
>>> \placefigure[force][]{the first}{\externalfigure[spider][height=1.5in]}
>>> \stopxcell
>>> \stopxrow
>>> \startxrow
>>> \startxcell
>>> \placefigure[force][]{the second}{\externalfigure[cow][height=1.5in]}
>>> \stopxcell
>>> \stopxrow
>>> \stopxtable
>>>
>>> It seems to work well except that figure numbers are being skipped. In this example hacker=1 mill=8, spider=9 and cow=10.
>>> Varying the contents of the table reveals that It is skipping two times the number of figures in the table.
>>>
>>> Is this an invalid combination of features I’m using or am I doing something wrong?
>>
>> The contents of a table are typeset multiple times to get an idea of the
>> height and width. Here is one option:
>>
>> \useMPlibrary[dum]
>>
>> \starttext
>>
>> \bTABLE[frame=off,align=low]
>> \bTR
>> \bTD[ny=2]
>> \placefigure[here,\iftrialtypesetting nonumber \fi]
>> []{left twoup}{\externalfigure[mill][width=2in,height=4in]}
>> \eTD
>> \bTD
>> \placefigure[here,\iftrialtypesetting nonumber \fi]
>> []{the first}{\externalfigure[spider][width=2in,height=2in]}
>> \eTD
>> \eTR
>> \bTR
>> \bTD
>> \placefigure[here,\iftrialtypesetting nonumber \fi]
>> []{the second}{\externalfigure[cow][width=2in,height=2in]}
>> \eTD
>> \eTR
>> \eTABLE
>> \stoptext
>>
> Thanks Aditya
>
> That solved the problem
@Hans: Does it make sense to disable \incrementcounter if
\trialtypesetting is active?
Aditya
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2016-03-31 13:23 ` Aidan Nichol
2016-03-31 21:51 ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2016-03-31 22:27 ` Alan BRASLAU
2016-04-01 1:49 ` Aditya Mahajan
2016-04-01 7:51 ` Hans Hagen
2016-04-01 8:01 ` Hans Hagen
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2016-04-01 10:17 ` Aidan Nichol
2016-04-01 14:21 ` Alan BRASLAU
2016-03-30 9:41 Aidan Nichol
2016-03-30 23:25 ` Aditya Mahajan
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