Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
> Tuesday, July 31, 2007 Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>
>> you can use ConTeXt's stream mechanism.
>
>> \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided]
>
>> \usemodule[streams]
>> \definestreamlayer[giuseppe][width=\textwidth]
>
>> \newbox\giuseppe
>
>> \starttext
>
>> \startstreamlayer[giuseppe]
>> \placefigure
>> [outer,none,fit]
>> {}
>> {\framed[width=.2\hsize,height=.2\hsize,offset=none]{}}
>
>> \startitemize
>> \item some test
>> \item \input knuth
>> \item \input tufte
>> \stopitemize
>> \stopstreamlayer
>
>> \vbox{\placestreamlayer[giuseppe]}
>
>> \stoptext
>
> Ah, excellent, it works perfectly, thanks a lot! Of course,
> I'm still curious about the reason why a standard vbox
> wouldn't do it ...
sidefloats hook into the output routine and that does ot work in a box;
streams intercept the page stream (nasty but neat); expect more of that
kind of stuff
Hans
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