Maybe what I did helps: see "Figures III" on http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Biochemistry_textbook. Although I used mkII at the time.
Cheers, Jörg R. Ermers writes: > Hi Marco, > > Thank you very much indeed for your reply. This topic apparently does not > interest many people. > > In your suggestion the figures are put in the outer margin in a vertical row > below one another close to the top of the page, and not near the position in > the text. > > I want them positioned close to the place in the text which should flow > around them. I have seen examples of this made by Context. This can be > obtained by specifying default=left, or default=right, only I need the > figures to protrude into the (outer) margin. This for some reason does not > work under mkiv. > > I still have some time, but my deadline is approaching. > > Thanks again! > > Kind regards, > > Robert > > > Op 10 sep. 2013, om 09:59 heeft Marco Patzer het volgende geschreven: > >> On 2013–09–10 R. Ermers wrote: >> >>> I have problems with the placement of floats. I need them to be >>> placed in the outer edge of the text, but Context puts them in the >>> middle of the page. The outer, inner, outeredge, inneredge, >>> commands do not work. Right and left do work. >> >> You probably confused edge and margin. By default the edge has zero >> width and has to be enabled using \setuplayout. >> >>> Preferably the criterium option should also work >> >> \setupexternalfigures >> [location=default] >> >> \setuppagenumbering >> [alternative=doublesided] >> >> \definefloat >> [marginfigure] >> [marginfigures] >> [figure] >> >> \setupfloat >> [marginfigure] >> [default=margin, >> criterium=\marginwidth] >> >> \setupcaption >> [marginfigure] >> [number=no] >> >> \showframe >> \starttext >> \dorecurse{9}{%% >> \input knuth >> \startplacemarginfigure >> \externalfigure [cow] [width=\recurselevel cm] >> \stopplacemarginfigure} >> \stoptext >> >> Marco ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________