Dear...

...invisible man probably known as Hans...

Thanks for fixing this!

Cheers,
Andreas

FYI followers:

\starttext 
\externalfigure[cow][width=0.5\makeupwidth] 
\stoptext

works with the latest beta (MKIV)

Am Jan 1, 2013 um 2:10 PM schrieb Andreas Mang <m...@imt.uni-luebeck.de>:

> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for the quick responses.
> 
>> The \externalfigure commands passes the values of the width/height keys to 
>> Lua which can’t handle relative values [...] to convert a relative (e.g. 
>> \textwidth) in a absolute value (e.g. 12pt) you can use the \dimexpr command.
>> 
>> \externalfigure[…][width=\the\dimexpr.3\textwidth\relax]
> 
> I'm seem to be not educated enough about dos and don'ts: To me it seemed 
> mandatory to use relative sizes as I might have to change the layout of my 
> document (*). So, do I get it right that the idea of this change is to stick 
> to a rigid A4 setting (i.e. all figures are e.g. of width 5 cm) and then 
> simply change the print out size to A5: 
> 
> \setuppapersize[A4][A5]
> 
> A quick "yes, keep it rigid" or "no, do it adaptively" would be enough to get 
> me on track (in case I am not telling bull****). I'll adapt my doc 
> accordingly. 
> 
> Cheers,
> Andreas
> 
> (*) I am currently working on a document, which Iis going through assessment 
> in A4 and very likely published in A5
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