Hi, I am working on some float placement code for a project. To not reinvent the wheel I like to know what is currently possible in ConTeXt.
Small floats should be placed in the margin and bigger ones centred in the text. Captions always go into the margin. That is the idea. The key to automate this seems to be the \setupfloat[criterium=…] parameter. Details: 1) Captions always in the margin 2) Captions left aligned 3) Figures smaller or equal \marginwidth go into the outer margin 4) Margin figures are aligned to the inner side of the margin 5) Margin figure captions underneath the figure 6) Figures wider than the margin go centred into the text 7) Text figure captions top aligned I got almost everything working. A minimal example is attached. Problems: Mf 1-2 are placed correctly. Problematic are Mf 3-4. The caption is not placed in the margin because of the \setupcaptions [mf] [location=bottom] setting for margin figures. Another thing is the weird alignment of Mf 3-4, I expect the figures to be centred. The reason is the following setting. \setupfloat [mf] [location=inner] If uncommented, the alignment of the margin figures is wrong. Figure 1-2 are examples of how it should look like. I could come up with a hackish solution on my own but maybe someone has an idea how to achieve this with built-in support. Marco
floatmargin.pdf
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\setupexternalfigures
[height=2cm]
\setupblackrules
[height=2cm]
\def\graph
{\blackrule}
\setuplayout
[width=9cm,
margin=4cm]
\setupcaptions
[location={outermargin, high},
width=\marginwidth]
\setupcaptions
[mf]
[location=bottom,
width=\marginwidth]
\definefloat
[mf]
[mfs]
\setupfloat
[mf]
[criterium=\rightmarginwidth,
location=inner,
default=margin]
\starttext
\showframe
\input knuth
\startplacefigure [title=Figure description] \graph[width=3cm] \stopplacefigure
\startplacefigure [title=Figure description] \graph[width=5cm] \stopplacefigure
\startplacemf [title=Short] \graph[width=2cm] \stopplacemf
\startplacemf [title=Figure description] \graph[width=4cm] \stopplacemf
\startplacemf [title=Figure description] \graph[width=4.2cm] \stopplacemf
\startplacemf [title=Figure description] \graph[width=8cm] \stopplacemf
\stoptext
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