On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, Santy, Michael wrote:
I've been playing around with the float placement options in ConTeXt, but I could find no way to enable "float pages". If you're not familiar with float pages, here's a quick blurb:
"If there are too many floats to fit on a page, LaTeX pushes them on to the next page, and the next; eventually, floats may end up at the end of the document. If the [p] option has been provided to individual figures and tables, they may be pushed together onto a ?float page? that has no text." - http://mintaka.sdsu.edu/GF/bibliog/latex/floats.html
I'm not interested in using \setupfloat[figure][default=page]. It forces all figures to a float page with one picture per page. In latex, the behavior that I desire can be specified with:
\begin{figure}[htbp] \includegraphics[width=5.0in, height=3.0in]{myfile.jpg} \caption{Blah} \end{figure}
IIUC, ConTeXt float mechanism if significantly different from LaTeX's. In particular it has no qualms about placing floats on a page of their own. For example \def\test{ \input knuth \endgraf \dorecurse{20}{ \placefigure{Random figure}{}} \input knuth \endgraf} \starttext \title{Here} \setupfloat[figure][default=here] \test % Multiple figures get placed on a page of their own \title{Top} \setupfloat[figure][default=top] \test % A long standing misfeature that top forces floats to % float on top of a title. \title{Bottom} \setupfloat[figure][default=bottom] \test % Again we can have multiple floats placed on a page of their own. \title{Page} \setupfloat[figure][default=page] \test % Only a single float per page \title{All} \setupfloat[figure][default=here,top,bottom,page] \test % If this makes you feel any better. \stoptext Aditya