Re: [NTG-context] The ultimate (?) float problem

I think I more or less got the idea of what is possible. But let me describe my project. Maybe you might come up with a better solution. I'm going to typeset a diary written and drawn by an illustrator and graphic designer 70 years ago. What is unique, it consists of handwritten pages which were already composed for publication. So in fact I have to preserve both the juxtaposition of illustrations and the text (give or take line or two). As basically the text should not flow between pages I guess I could set the whole thing with layers only. The biggest problem seems how to control placement of layers so that the text inside them is set on the grid. Here is my initial setup for a single page. \definelayer [figure][width=\overlaywidth,height=\overlayheight] \defineoverlay[figure][{\directsetup{figure}\tightlayer[figure]}] \setupcolors[state=start] \setupbackgrounds[page][background=figure] \setuppagenumbering[location={footer,right}] \usetypescript[palatino] \setupbodyfont[palatino,14pt] \starttext \startbuffer[zapf] \input zapf \stopbuffer \startbuffer[hawking] \input hawking \stopbuffer \flushlayer[figure] \startsetups figure \setlayerframed[figure][frame=off,x=25mm,y=43mm]{\externalfigure[cow][width=\textwidth,height=40mm]} \setlayerframed[figure][frame=off,x=25mm,y=90mm,align=normal,width=\textwidth]{\getbuffer[zapf]} \setlayerframed[figure][frame=off,x=80mm,y=150mm]{\externalfigure[cow][width=30mm,height=100mm]} \setlayerframed[figure][frame=off,x=25mm,y=150mm,align=normal,width=50mm]{\getbuffer[hawking]} \setlayerframed[figure][frame=off,x=120mm,y=150mm,align=normal,width=50mm]{\getbuffer[hawking]} \stopsetups \stoptext Of course, it looks like it's going to take couple of months of rather tedious manual work so any ideas how to make it easier are welcome. Piotr 2009/5/12 luigi scarso :

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

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Am 12.05.2009 um 15:18 schrieb Piotr Kopszak:

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Yes, exactly.

\setuppapersize [S6] \setuptolerance [soepel,rek]

better

\setuppapersize [S6][S6] \setuptolerance [tolerant,stretch] -- luigi

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