Hello all, I'm still fighting with the float placement in columns issue. I have gone over https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Text_blocks/Environments/Columns#Floats_and_other_limitations_of_columns which discusses some of the details and came up with a consideration: is it possible to define a mixedcolumn environment where the balancing is only done on the LAST page? IOW when the environment spans multiple pages, treat the first page(s) as unbalanced, and only worry about balancing the text that ends up in the last page of column text.
Cheers, Giuseppe Bilotta Il giorno sab 14 mar 2026 alle ore 22:51 Giuseppe Bilotta <[email protected]> ha scritto: > > Hello all, > > I'm having issues with figure placements in a two-column layout. The > layout is defined as > > \definemixedcolumns[TwoCols][n=2,balance=yes,distance=1cm] > > and when it's active, if I \placefigure[auto][]{A caption}{<figure > code goes here>} one of two things happen: > > * if the code to insert the figure is a simple > \externalfigure[figname.png][width=\textwidth] then what happens is > that the figure “floats” correctly, but where the figure should be I > only get an empty space (i.e. the figure proper doesn't seem to be > placed); > > * if the externalfigure command is wrapped in something (\framed, > \hbox, \startcombination) then: > 1. the figure pushes out all the following text: e.g., if it floats to > the top of the next column, no text fills the space before its final > placement; so there's a lot of empty spaces. > 2. there's some whitespace on top that I can't seem to get rid of. > > Anything I can do to solve these issues? > > Cheers, > > Giuseppe Bilotta ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : [email protected] / https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman3/lists/ntg-context.ntg.nl webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / https://context.aanhet.net (mirror) archive : https://github.com/contextgarden/context wiki : https://wiki.contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
