On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:

On May 9, 2009, at 1:15 PM, Robert Blackstone wrote:

> Both work. Thank you. Stupid of me to forget or neglect a pair of
> empty curly braces.
>
>
I don't know if this is of any comfort to you, but you're not alone:

http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20050406.125324.0c9e677e.en.html

Thomas

The tricky thing was that I coiuld not find any clue in the logfile: leaving out both empty curly braces generates no error message and the file typesets beautifully except for this one detail, a vertical instead of the desired horizontal arrangement of two figures. But when one leaves out only one of the empty curly braces the file does not typeset at all and there is a clear (well, fairly clear) error message. Like what happens for instance when one leaves out the {} for the caption after \placefigure[][].