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.
not trivial indeed, although it is more or less doable when you
accept some limitations, e.g. if you have only text and graphics,
use a grid, and have no other tricky stuff that can interfere
(display math or so)
Hans
ok, agreed!
But figure labels are needed (do they interfere?)
Steffen
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