Context already has mechanisms for flowing or wrapping text around a graphic. How well the wraparound feature works when more than one short
h h extern said this at Sun, 26 Dec 2004 21:33:44 +0100: paragraph is
involved I have not tested yet.
the mp based background mechanism can handle that: see plus-rul.tex
(there is also another mechanism available which permits rather nasty variants but i still had no time to document it, so it's currently a hidden feature)
plus-rul is interesting, but I'm 98% certain that when John talks about sidebars, he means what you call intermezzos. My interpretation, using the things I do know (or figured out this morning): \setupfloat [intermezzo] [leftmargindistance=-\outercombitotal, rightmargindistance=-\outercombitotal, default=outer] \setupcaption[intermezzo][location=none] \starttext \showframe \input ward \placeintermezzo{}{\framedtext[width=7cm]{\tfx\input dawkins }} \dorecurse{3}{\input knuth \par} \stoptext What I don't know, however, is: 1) how to force a width on flowed text within a float without resorting to the internal \framedtext, or 2) how to use this with \splitfloat, which is what I suspect people who think about sidebars (intermezzo texts) are going to be worried about in a batch-based system. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dept. atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk Lancaster University, InfoLab21 +44(0)1524/510.514 Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/510.492 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-