On Fri, Mar 14, 2025 at 17:16 (-0000), autumnus wrote:
My opinion is that these values are completely inherited from setupalign, so you can observe their differences through the following examples:
\starttext\showgrid \framed[height=2\baselineskip]{Thus,} \blank[2*line] \framed[align=high,height=2\baselineskip]{Thus,}\blank[2*line]% Similar to \vbox to 2\baselineskip{something\par\vfill} \framed[align=low,height=2\baselineskip]{Thus,}% % Similar to \vbox to 2\baselineskip{\par\vfill\par something} \stoptext
It should be because of the existence of vfill, so it is said "move down". When low used with left/right, it will be aligned down on the current line. When low used with page, it will go down to the current page.
Left/Right and so on should be the value of location, which determines the relative position of the floats.
autumnus, thanks for the example, but in my example the cow doesn't move at all when "low" is added (or subsequently removed), which doesn't relate in any obvious-to-me way to how "Thus" is moving up and down in your example. I guess looking at the code for \placefigure would give a definitive answer. Another thing to do for another day. Jim