Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
Tuesday, July 31, 2007 Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
you can use ConTeXt's stream mechanism.
\setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided]
\usemodule[streams] \definestreamlayer[giuseppe][width=\textwidth]
\newbox\giuseppe
\starttext
\startstreamlayer[giuseppe] \placefigure [outer,none,fit] {} {\framed[width=.2\hsize,height=.2\hsize,offset=none]{}}
\startitemize \item some test \item \input knuth \item \input tufte \stopitemize \stopstreamlayer
\vbox{\placestreamlayer[giuseppe]}
\stoptext
Ah, excellent, it works perfectly, thanks a lot! Of course, I'm still curious about the reason why a standard vbox wouldn't do it ...
sidefloats hook into the output routine and that does ot work in a box; streams intercept the page stream (nasty but neat); expect more of that kind of stuff Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------