Re: [NTG-context] How does \setupfloat work?
On 11/29/2014 10:49 AM, Mark Szepieniec wrote:
I'm trying to set a default width for figures with \setupfloat. However,
the command doesn't seem to be picking up the width specification, even
though the manual indicates it accepts a width= argument:
\setupfloat[figure][width=2cm]
\starttext
\placefigure{}{\externalfigure[picture.png]}
\stoptext
just
\placefigure{}{\externalfigure[picture.png][width=2cm]}
picture.png just gets inserted at its native size, rather than scaled to
have the specified width. What am I doing wrong? (setting minwidth
and/or maxwidth doesn't seem to work either)
Thanks in advance for any assistance.
Mark
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Re: [NTG-context] How does \setupfloat work?
On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote:
On 11/29/2014 10:49 AM, Mark Szepieniec wrote:
I'm trying to set a default width for figures with \setupfloat. However,
the command doesn't seem to be picking up the width specification, even
though the manual indicates it accepts a width= argument:
\setupfloat[figure][width=2cm]
\starttext
\placefigure{}{\externalfigure[picture.png]}
\stoptext
just
\placefigure{}{\externalfigure[picture.png][width=2cm]}
picture.png just gets inserted at its native size, rather than scaled to
have the specified width. What am I doing wrong? (setting minwidth
and/or maxwidth doesn't seem to work either)
Thanks in advance for any assistance.
Mark
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Sorry, I should have mentioned I was able to work around it by doing
exactly that, but I'd rather not have to edit all the \placefigure
instances if I decide to change the width.
Also I'd like to use a different default width for graphics, so
\setupexternalfigures[width=XXXcm] wouldn't work well either.
I realize I could define my own macros or something to solve this, but I'm
just puzzled that setting width in \setupfloat[figure] doesn't work. Am I
reading the manual wrong, or is is just not implemented yet or something?
(honest question)
Thanks for your response,
Mark
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Re: [NTG-context] How does \setupfloat work?
On 29 Nov 2014, at 11:49 , Mark Szepieniec mszep...@gmail.com wrote
Sorry, I should have mentioned I was able to work around it by doing
exactly that, but I'd rather not have to edit all the \placefigure
instances if I decide to change the width.
Also I'd like to use a different default width for graphics, so
\setupexternalfigures[width=XXXcm] wouldn't work well either.
I realize I could define my own macros or something to solve this, but I'm
just puzzled that setting width in \setupfloat[figure] doesn't work. Am I
reading the manual wrong, or is is just not implemented yet or something?
(honest question)
Hi Mark,
What I would probably do (again) is:
1 leave out the float dimension from the setup and use something like
\definefloat[figure][figures]
\setupfloat[figure][location=,spacebefore=,spaceafter=,sidespacebefore=,sidespaceafter=]
or whatever you want in this respect
2 collect in a separate .tex-file, to be input in your document .tex-file, all
figure-data in the form
\useexternalfigure[Fig1][YourFigure1.png][width=.x\textwidth]% etc
If you want a different uniform figure width you can then easily replace ijn
this file all width=.x\textwidth by width=.y\textwidth.
3 In your document .tex-file use
\placefigure[here][Fig1]{Title}
{\externalfigure[Fig1]}
This will probably give you optimal flexibility.
I hope it helps.
Best regards,
Robert Blackstone
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Re: [NTG-context] How does \setupfloat work?
On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote:
On 11/29/2014 10:49 AM, Mark Szepieniec wrote:
I'm trying to set a default width for figures with \setupfloat. However,
the command doesn't seem to be picking up the width specification, even
though the manual indicates it accepts a width= argument:
\setupfloat[figure][width=2cm]
\starttext
\placefigure{}{\externalfigure[picture.png]}
\stoptext
just
\placefigure{}{\externalfigure[picture.png][width=2cm]}
picture.png just gets inserted at its native size, rather than scaled to
have the specified width. What am I doing wrong? (setting minwidth
and/or maxwidth doesn't seem to work either)
Thanks in advance for any assistance.
Mark
Sorry, I should have mentioned I was able to work around it by doing
exactly that, but I'd rather not have to edit all the \placefigure
instances if I decide to change the width.
Also I'd like to use a different default width for graphics, so
\setupexternalfigures[width=XXXcm] wouldn't work well either.
I realize I could define my own macros or something to solve this, but I'm
just puzzled that setting width in \setupfloat[figure] doesn't work. Am I
reading the manual wrong, or is is just not implemented yet or something?
(honest question)
Thanks for your response,
Mark
Hi Mark,
You can use \defineexternalfigure as in the following example.
\defineexternalfigure[whatever][width=2cm]
\starttext
\placefigure{}{\externalfigure[picture.png][whatever]}
\stoptext
See also http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Floating_Objects
Christoph
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Re: [NTG-context] How does \setupfloat work?
On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 8:22 PM, Christoph Reller
christoph.rel...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote:
On 11/29/2014 10:49 AM, Mark Szepieniec wrote:
I'm trying to set a default width for figures with \setupfloat.
However,
the command doesn't seem to be picking up the width specification, even
though the manual indicates it accepts a width= argument:
\setupfloat[figure][width=2cm]
\starttext
\placefigure{}{\externalfigure[picture.png]}
\stoptext
just
\placefigure{}{\externalfigure[picture.png][width=2cm]}
picture.png just gets inserted at its native size, rather than scaled
to
have the specified width. What am I doing wrong? (setting minwidth
and/or maxwidth doesn't seem to work either)
Thanks in advance for any assistance.
Mark
Sorry, I should have mentioned I was able to work around it by doing
exactly that, but I'd rather not have to edit all the \placefigure
instances if I decide to change the width.
Also I'd like to use a different default width for graphics, so
\setupexternalfigures[width=XXXcm] wouldn't work well either.
I realize I could define my own macros or something to solve this, but I'm
just puzzled that setting width in \setupfloat[figure] doesn't work. Am I
reading the manual wrong, or is is just not implemented yet or something?
(honest question)
Thanks for your response,
Mark
Hi Mark,
You can use \defineexternalfigure as in the following example.
\defineexternalfigure[whatever][width=2cm]
\starttext
\placefigure{}{\externalfigure[picture.png][whatever]}
\stoptext
See also http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Floating_Objects
Christoph
Thanks all for your responses.
\defineexternalfigure looks like it does something very close to what I
wanted. Googling it brought me to a mailing list thread where a question
similar to mine was asked, so for future reference:
http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2012/069446.html.
So I guess my problem is resolved, but I'd still like to understand better
why my earlier solution of doing
\setupfloat[figure][width=2cm]
didn't set a default for later instances of \placefigure. I feel like I
might be missing some aspect of the ConTeXt philosophy, or I'm misreading
the manual, or it's just a bug...?
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Re: [NTG-context] How does \setupfloat work?
On Sat, 29 Nov 2014, Mark Szepieniec wrote:
So I guess my problem is resolved, but I'd still like to understand better
why my earlier solution of doing
\setupfloat[figure][width=2cm]
didn't set a default for later instances of \placefigure. I feel like I
might be missing some aspect of the ConTeXt philosophy, or I'm misreading
the manual, or it's just a bug...?
\setupfloat[figure] sets the values of \startplacefigure (and
\placefigure), and not for \externalfigure. The width value for
startplacefigure is not used anywhere.
The default value of \setupfloats[width=...] is used when the float box is
empty. So, the only scenario where the value of \setupfloats[width=...]
will matter is the following:
\starttext
\setupfloats[width=2cm]
\placefloat{}{}
\setupfloats[width=10cm]
\placefloat{}{}
\stoptext
Aditya
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Re: [NTG-context] How does \setupfloat work?
On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 12:48 AM, Aditya Mahajan adit...@umich.edu wrote:
On Sat, 29 Nov 2014, Mark Szepieniec wrote:
So I guess my problem is resolved, but I'd still like to understand better
why my earlier solution of doing
\setupfloat[figure][width=2cm]
didn't set a default for later instances of \placefigure. I feel like I
might be missing some aspect of the ConTeXt philosophy, or I'm misreading
the manual, or it's just a bug...?
\setupfloat[figure] sets the values of \startplacefigure (and
\placefigure), and not for \externalfigure. The width value for
startplacefigure is not used anywhere.
The default value of \setupfloats[width=...] is used when the float box is
empty. So, the only scenario where the value of \setupfloats[width=...]
will matter is the following:
\starttext
\setupfloats[width=2cm]
\placefloat{}{}
\setupfloats[width=10cm]
\placefloat{}{}
\stoptext
Aditya
Thanks Aditya, that's very helpful and things make more sense now. Is this
stuff documented somewhere or did you consult the source code?
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