Hi Jörg and Marco, Thanks for your replies.
I have tried the chemistry textbook examples too, especially vignette seems to do what I want. I noticed you used mkii at the time, but I have mkiv now. Should I return to mkii if I want to obtain this? Regards, Robert Op 10 sep. 2013, om 15:18 heeft Jörg Hagmann het volgende geschreven: > 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 > ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________
