Re: [NTG-context] Vertically Aligning inmargin Text to Figure

24 May 2013

      Wolfgang,

Thank you for this. I can see what you are trying to do here, but this does not actually compile for me. Unfortunately, I don't know enough about the implementation of ConTeXt to track the problem down. I am getting:

! Undefined control sequence.

system          > tex > error on line 14 in file test.tex: Undefined control sequence ...

 4     	\copy\nextbox\rlap{\hskip\rightmargindistance\framed[frame=off,width=\rightmarginwidth,height=\nextboxht]{\floatuserdataparameter{text}}}
 5     	\stoplinealignment}
 6     \hbox}
 7     
 8     \setupfloat[figure][command=\FigureText]
 9     
10     \starttext
11     
12     \startplacefigure[title=Dummy figure][text=Margin dummy]
13     \externalfigure[dummy][width=.8\textwidth]
14 >>  \stopplacefigure
15     
16     \stoptext
17     

\syst_boxes_with_next_box ->\startlinealignment 
                                                [middle] \copy \nextbox \rla...
\strc_floats_place_packaged_boxes_indeed ...tbox }
                                                  }\strc_floats_set_natural_...
\strc_floats_finish_placement ...e_packaged_boxes 
                                                  \dostoptagged \global \d_p...
l.14 \stopplacefigure

Admittedly, I am on version 2012.10.20, which is about six months old now, but I am hesitant to update as I have a lot of co-workers using the same version and our configuration management processes dictate that we always update together.

Could you please help me out.

Thank you,
Malte.

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On 29/04/2013, at 9:04 PM, Wolfgang Schuster  wrote:
...
Am 29.04.2013 um 09:33 schrieb Malte Stien :
...
Hi,
I need to associate a bit of text with a figure in a book. The text is not---and cannot be---the figure caption (it's providing some explanation with respect to some labels in the figure). I have tried the following based on some other post on the mailing list:
\definepapersize[eightsquare][width=8in, height=8in]
\setuppapersize[eightsquare]
\setuplayout[
  location=doublesided, marking=on, backspace=43mm, leftmargin=18mm,
  leftmargindistance=4mm, rightmargin=35mm, rightmargindistance=4mm, rightedgewidth=6mm,
  topspace=12mm, header=15mm,	footer=15mm, height=179mm, width=115mm
]
\starttext
\startplacefigure[location=force, title={First dummy caption}]
\inmargin{First margin dummy}
\externalfigure[dummy][width=115mm]
\stopplacefigure
\stoptext
However, that results in the text being down the bottom of the figure. I need the text to be vertically aligned with the top of the figure. I have attached the resulting PDF for illustration purposes (is that okay on this mailing list? It's very small).
Any hints would be much appreciated.
You can set the text in the margin with the second argument of \startplacefigure.
\define\FigureText
 {\dowithnextbox
    {\startlinealignment[middle]
     \copy\nextbox\rlap{\hskip\rightmargindistance\framed[frame=off,width=\rightmarginwidth,height=\nextboxht]{\floatuserdataparameter{text}}}
     \stoplinealignment}
    \hbox}
\setupfloat[figure][command=\FigureText]
\starttext
\startplacefigure[title=Dummy figure][text=Margin dummy]
\externalfigure[dummy][width=.8\textwidth]
\stopplacefigure
\stoptext
Wolfgang
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