On Jan 19, 2006, at 18:00, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
(2) Second question. Is there a mechanism whereby one can force
the float to at least the next page when there is no room for it
below the current point on the page?
There is:
\startpostponing
<stuff with postponed floats>
\stoppostponing
I believe it is mentioned in a manual somewhere, but don't recall
off-hand which one. However, I'm not confident that that mechanism
does precisey what you want, and it is definately not automatic.
It seems to do what I wanted. Putting small figures in the margin on
the next page from where the call is made.
I seem to remember some mentioning of remaining space on the page in
"ConTeXt-fashion" but cannot find it again.
Or can I just rely on TeX's \pagetotal? I tried something as:
\scratchdimen=\textheight
\advance\scratchdimen by -\pagetotal
\ifdim\scratchdimen<#1\relax .......
Is it an option to enrich \startpostponing to \startpostponing
[need=distance]?
( reprogramming \setvalue{\e!start\v!postponing} is it? asks a bit
too much of my inner-ConTeXt skills)
I tried something on the following lines, but got stuck with a
remaining \stoppostponing when there appears to enough space.
Defining \stoppostponing to \empty seems not to work.
\def\startpostponingwhen[#1]{%
\scratchdimen=\textheight
\advance\scratchdimen by -\pagetotal
\ifdim\scratchdimen<#1\relax
\let\dostoppostponingwhen=\stoppostponing
\expandafter\startpostponing
\fi}
yours sincerely,
dr. H. van der Meer
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