At 09:52 AM 1/13/2003 +0100, you wrote:

Hi Hans,

I would like to ask you wether you could have a look at the \startfloattext environment. I got different files, where this environment is used. However yesterday night I was unable to get texts where \startfiguretext ..\stopfiguretext is used compiled.

Context complains about a } which was inserted:

this is solved in the latest beta

! Missing } inserted. <inserted text> } <to be read again> \endgroup l.13 ...escription of the \quote{Reliure de Lyon}}

A minimal file is attached.

(1) you forgot the caption "{whatever}" (2) you used \useexternalfigure (just a def) instead of \externalfigure (usage) \starttext \startfiguretext [left] [fig:lyon4] {whatever} {\externalfigure[lyon4][width=0.5\textwidth]} {This is a picture derived from a description of the \quote {Reliure de Lyon}} \stopfiguretext \stoptext ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------