On Thu, 31 Mar 2016 17:51:07 -0400 Aditya Mahajan <adit...@umich.edu> wrote:
> @Hans: Does it make sense to disable \incrementcounter if > \trialtypesetting is active? I was going to suggest such things... Here is a case where a float is not being used as a floating object in that we want to control placement through location=here or, better, location=force. We do this as users for we want to produce a caption as well as make an entry into the list. However, floats have some limitations: for example they cannot usually handle multiple pages (except for some table splits), nor can they take \startcolumns \stopcolumns, and I am sure that there are others. Does anyone have suggestions/ideas around these kinds of issues? Should a float with location=force be treated any differently? Another annoying issue with floats: \startplacefloat\stopplacefloat initiates a paragraph break. If one refers to a float (figure or table) somewhere in a long paragraph, one might like the float to be anchored starting from that location. I achieve this using \startpostponing [+0] \startplacefigure \stopplacefigure \stoppostponing but this does not always work well. In addition, this is not very satisfying (as it makes for ugly source code). Also, one might want to use location=right or location=left without using "hang" and counting lines. Hans has repeated that floats are complicated beasts and such features would interfere with paragraph building. OK (But dare I say that LaTeX does not seem to have any problem with this.) Alan P.S. Would not the use of \startcombination\stopcombination be an alternative to the placefigures within a table? ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________
