At 21:22 23/02/2004, you wrote:
Hello,
I have a bunch of figures of the same dimension 3.5x3.5. On each page in a document, I'd like to place a pair of them \ so that -- the figures are exactly at the same location on each page -- there is a specific horizontal gap between the figures -- they are vertically aligned.
In short, I'd be happy if I could force TeX to put the left upper corner of a figure at a specific location on the page.
All figures have the same dimension. I tried to improve on
\placefigure [nonumber,fit] [fig:page7] {Pair No 7} \framed{ \startcombination[2*1] {\externalfigure[left7][width=3.5in]}{} {\externalfigure[right7][width=3.5in]}{} \stopcombination }
but I have no clue how to make the whitespace between the figures to be say exactly .2 in, nor how to force a position of the float into the center of the page.
Details.pdf contains lots of suggestions for placements, and I have the suspicion that I just haven't found it there yet -- maybe somebody here can help me?
I leave it to you to figure out how to reach that much abstraction -) \useMPlibrary[dum] \definecombination [double] [distance=.2in, location=middle] \definefloat [doublefigure] [doublefigures] [figure] \setupfloat [doublefigure] [default={top,nonumber,fit}, frame=on] \useexternalfigure [double] [width=3.5in] \starttext \startbuffer \startcombination[double][2*1] {\externalfigure[left7][double][height=1in]} {} {\externalfigure[right7][double]} {} \stopcombination \stopbuffer \placedoublefigure[][fig:page7]{Pair No 7}{\getbuffer} test \stoptext