Thanks Aditya
That solved the problem
>
>
> On Wed, 30 Mar 2016, Aidan Nichol wrote:
>
>> I have been looking at various options for controlling how figures are placed on a page and based on answers to similar questions in this mailing list I tried various options. The most flexible one seems to be using tables e.g.
>>
>> \setupexternalfigures[location={default}]
>>
>> \starttext
>>
>> \placefigure[]{}{\externalfigure[hacker][height=1in]}
>>
>> \startxtable[frame=off,align=low]
>> \startxrow
>> \startxcell[ny=2]
>> \placefigure[force][]{left twoup}{\externalfigure[mill][height=4in]}
>> \stopxcell
>> \startxcell
>> \placefigure[force][]{the first}{\externalfigure[spider][height=1.5in]}
>> \stopxcell
>> \stopxrow
>> \startxrow
>> \startxcell
>> \placefigure[force][]{the second}{\externalfigure[cow][height=1.5in]}
>> \stopxcell
>> \stopxrow
>> \stopxtable
>>
>> It seems to work well except that figure numbers are being skipped. In this example hacker=1 mill=8, spider=9 and cow=10.
>> Varying the contents of the table reveals that It is skipping two times the number of figures in the table.
>>
>> Is this an invalid combination of features I’m using or am I doing something wrong?
>
> The contents of a table are typeset multiple times to get an idea of the
> height and width. Here is one option:
>
> \useMPlibrary[dum]
>
> \starttext
>
> \bTABLE[frame=off,align=low]
> \bTR
> \bTD[ny=2]
> \placefigure[here,\iftrialtypesetting nonumber \fi]
> []{left twoup}{\externalfigure[mill][width=2in,height=4in]}
> \eTD
> \bTD
> \placefigure[here,\iftrialtypesetting nonumber \fi]
> []{the first}{\externalfigure[spider][width=2in,height=2in]}
> \eTD
> \eTR
> \bTR
> \bTD
> \placefigure[here,\iftrialtypesetting nonumber \fi]
> []{the second}{\externalfigure[cow][width=2in,height=2in]}
> \eTD
> \eTR
> \eTABLE
> \stoptext
>
> Aditya
>
