On 09/26/2010 06:01 PM, Elias Oltmanns wrote:

Taco Hoekwater wrote:

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On 09/25/2010 08:03 PM, Elias Oltmanns wrote:

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The first couple of lines of the paragraph beginning on page two should really go on the previous page. Since the hang mechanism of \placefigure doesn't work due to the page break, I'd like to split this paragraph into two logical entities, so TeX can put the first on the first page and treat the second as a separate paragraph flowing around the picture. However, the reader should not be aware of this split.

Any help much appreciated,

I don't know of any automatic solution to this problem (except _perhaps_ columnsets could help) but the simplest way to split a paragraph into two paragraphs while still looking like one is by inserting a macro like this at an existing break point:

Thanks Taco, this appears to be exactly what I was looking for. One more thing though: is there a simple way to arrange for all arguments provided to \splitpar to be passed on to \placefigure in a definition like this:

Something like this should work: \def\splitpar#1% {\bgroup .... \gdef\splitparcommands{\placefigure#1\parskip...}% \aftergroup \splitparcommands \egroup} The definition is all about \aftergroup: each \aftergroup adds exactly one *token* to the list of things to run after the group ends. Passing arguments that way is tedious and very error prone (you would need something like \adtergroup [ \aftergroup l \aftergroup e \aftergroup f ... ), so defining a global macro and passing that is better. I did not do this in the earlier version because if you can get around using \gdef, it is usually wise to do so. Sorry, I have no idea whether it is possible to do this stuff with a nicer, more ConTeXt interface. Best wishes, Taco