Hello,
A follow-up on the solution
\startpostponing [+0]
\startplacefigure
…
\stopplacefigure
\stoppostponing
As a side effect, one then needs to be careful to surround
ALL placefigures with \startpostponing[+0]\stoppostponing,
even those that occur after a paragraph end
(where one is not concerned about adding a paragraph break),
else the floating figures may get placed out of order,
e.g. figure 4 before figure 3.
As this makes for somewhat sloppy tex files,
should not placefigure/table/other get FIXED
so as not to introduce a paragraph break?
Alan
On Thu Apr 5 15:38:05 CEST 2012 Alan BRASLAU wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Apr 2012 13:39:42 +0200
> Steffen Wolfrum <context at st.estfiles.de> wrote:
>
> >
> > Am 05.04.2012 um 13:25 schrieb luigi scarso:
> >
> > > On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Aditya Mahajan <adityam at umich.edu>
> > > wrote:
> > >> (Untested)
> > >>
> > >> \startpostponing[+1]
> > >> \placefigure[top]{}{...}
> > >> \stoppostponing
> > >>
> > >> Rest of the text
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Aditya
> > > \starttext
> > >
> > > \switchtobodyfont[rm,10pt]
> > >
> > > \input tufte \input ward \input zapf \input tufte \input ward \input
> > > zapf \input tufte \input ward %
> > > \input zapf \input tufte \input ward %
> > > \input zapf HERE%
> > > \startpostponing[+1]
> > > \placefigure[top]{}{\vskip3pt\externalfigure[foo][frame=off,width=\dimexpr(\textwidth-10mm)]}
> > > \stoppostponing%
> > > AND HERE \input tufte \input ward %
> > > \input zapf \input tufte \input ward \input zapf \input tufte \input
> > > ward \input zapf \input tufte %
> > > \input ward \input zapf \input tufte \input ward \input zapf
> > >
> > > \stoptext
> > >
> > > seems ok
> >
> >
> >
> > indeed, a great result.
> > (searching for this command now, I saw that it's a quite old
> > command ... only I never knew it)
> >
> > thanks a lot Aditya and Luigi!
>
>
> I have been looking for a trick to place figures near their reference
> in the text, without imposing a paragraph break.
> This trick works (so thanks again to Aditya and Luigi):
>
> \starttext
>
> Some text is described \in{figure}[fig:reference].
> \startpostponing[+0]
> \startplacefigure[location=here,reference=fig:reference,
> title={This figure gets placed somewhere near its reference.}]
> \externalfigure[cow][width=\textwidth]
> \stopplacefigure
> \stoppostponing
> The text continues here without a paragraph break.
>
> \stoptext
>
> A few comments:
>
> 1. The \startpostponing...\stoppostponing is necessary,
> although some other wrapper around the placefigure might also work.
>
> 2. The % at the end of the lines in the above examples is not necessary
> unless one seeks to kill the spacing between {HERE}{AND HERE}.
>
> 3. One should preferably be using \startplacefigure\stopplacefigure
> (rather than \placefigure). Besides being cleaner, as a bonus
> one gets to use title={},list={} for the figure caption and
> list of figure entry.
>
> Should placefigure be "fixed" somehow so as to hide its paragraph
> break itself?
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