Lei Wang wrote:
I have several small figures and want to place them in two columns as follows: [example snipped]
[floats] seem to depend on the pagebreak and do not work all the time. If there are a pagebreak before or after the block of these figures, it doesn't work well.
I find floats difficult. They do weird things. I tried to create a minimum file that shows your columns of figures behaving badly -- I didn't succeed. Here is the test file I created: ----- \setupcolors [state=start] \startuseMPgraphic{fig1} w := 4cm ; h := 2cm ; ww := 1cm ; hh := 1.5cm ; fill (0,0)--(0,h)--(w,h)--(w,0)--(ww,0)--(w,hh)--(ww,hh)--(ww,0)--cycle ; \stopuseMPgraphic \starttext \input tufte \startcolumns[n=2] \placefigure[here]{blabla}{\useMPgraphic{fig1}} \column \placefigure[here]{blabla}{\useMPgraphic{fig1}} \stopcolumns \page \startcolumns[n=2] \placefigure[here]{blabla}{\useMPgraphic{fig1}} \column \placefigure[here]{blabla}{\useMPgraphic{fig1}} \stopcolumns \input tufte \stoptext %%% Local Variables: %%% mode:context %%% End: ----- You may have to post a more complete example that demonstrates where ConTeXt is behaving badly.