On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 11:43, Peter Münster wrote:

Vnpenguin writes:

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I'm trying TeX-figures (Section 13.5 of ConTeX manual). Here is my test

Hello,

In the new manual it's section 16.5.

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\stopbuffer \externalfigure[mytable.tmp][width=0.8\textwidth]

In mkiv, the buffer is not saved in a file. You need to do this explicitly:

\stopbuffer \savebuffer[mytable][mytable.tmp] \externalfigure[mytable.tmp][width=0.8\textwidth]

Thank you, this method works ok for me. Cheers

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 12:27, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

Am 30.01.2011 um 11:43 schrieb Peter Münster:

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In mkiv, the buffer is not saved in a file. You need to do this explicitly:

\stopbuffer \savebuffer[mytable][mytable.tmp] \externalfigure[mytable.tmp][width=0.8\textwidth]

In MkIV this should be possible

\externalfigure[mytable.buffer]

where you don’t have to save buffer but it seems to be broken.

Yes, it's broken. I don't like \savebuffer but I have no choice for now.

Steffen Wolfrum writes:

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\getbuffer

Works great for me ...

Sure, but it's really not the same ;) Compare: \starttext \startbuffer \startTEXpage[width=5cm] \input tufte \stopTEXpage \stopbuffer \getbuffer \startbuffer[testbuf] \input tufte \stopbuffer \savebuffer[testbuf][testbuf.tmp] \externalfigure[testbuf.tmp][width=5cm] \stoptext Cheers, -- Peter

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 18:39, Hans Hagen wrote:

\starttext

\startbuffer[testbuf] \input tufte \stopbuffer

\externalfigure[testbuf][type=buffer,width=5cm]

It works.

\externalfigure[testbuf.buffer][width=5cm]

It does not work.

\stoptext

in mkiv .tmp makes no sense any more as we have no tmp files

In fact, I don't care about extension of this file. Thanks,