Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Steffen Wolfrum wrote:
> Hi,
>
> it would be great if the \placefigure macro could be extended to
> combinations like
>
> \placefigure{top,left}
>
> or
>
> \placefigure{bottom,outer}
>
>
> The reason for this request is that we use ConTeXt a lot for
> typesetting books from "arts and humanities".
>
> There we often have to place a lot of (more then 100) figures at
> "fixed" positions like top-outer and bottom-inner, wrapped by text.
>
> I guess it's not a trivial feature to be implemented in TeX's
> paragraph processing, but I know it might be worth the effort:
> ConTeXt's way to deal with fonts and text is so superior that it
> should be also accessible for disciplines that besides text also rely
> on images - as the arts and humanities do.
btw, do you know this trick?
\starttext
\hangsidefloat[2]
\placefigure[left][]{}{} \dorecurse{10}{\input zapf \par}
\stoptext
yes I know. you once told me (as for the first time I asked for this
feature two years ago...).
true, it's a nice trick. and I used it in smaller publications.
but it is not practicable with a lot of images (and this cases are
the regular ones, unfortunately).
typesetting with a lot of images wrapped by text is still a quite
problematic task in ConTeXt/TeX .
Steffen
(P.S. actually my motivation to move to ConTeXt years ago was the
hope that this image handling might be possible there. well, it
wasn't ... )
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