Shouldn't it be: \startfigure [reference=mycow] \externalfigure [cow.pdf] [width=4cm] \stopfigure

On 19Nov21, at 19/11/21, 06:35, Taco Hoekwater wrote:

% MWE (assuming I understand the supposed syntax correctly): \starttext \startfigure[mycow][cow.pdf][width=4cm] ... \stopfigure some text \stoptext

-- Alan Braslau

Hi all,

I was trying to document the \marking()() command (which is in itself a bit of an odd thing, but not the point of this message). It is supposedly to be used inside of

\startfigure … \stopfigure (lmtx) or with the old name: \placestartfigure … \placestopfigure (mkii/mkiv)

but as I was trying to produce an example, I discovered that

\startfigure … \stopfigure

does not seem to work at all ? no output appears. Is this command supposed to still work, even?

% MWE (assuming I understand the supposed syntax correctly): \starttext \startfigure[mycow][cow.pdf][width=4cm] ... \stopfigure some text \stoptext

On 11/19/2021 2:35 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: that's an oldy ... pre-metapost, pre-positioning, pre-layers ... (maybe make it into a compatibility (auto loaded) module if not really used any more) (1) parsing issue i.e. not adapted to recent 'upgrade' (2) due to grouping the mechanism thinks ther ei sno image (so it also shows a dummy) fixed (hackerish) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------