On 5/21/2015 3:43 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 11:12 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

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Am 20.05.2015 um 16:43 schrieb Mojca Miklavec wrote:

Hello,

This is not strictly a ConTeXt question.

I have two almost identical figures which I want to display one after the other. Ideally that would be on the same page with the combination of both having a single figure number (and possibly the two individual figures having labels (a) and (b), but that's not strictly required).

However if the page breaks are not favourable, it would be OK to split the two figures, so that one ends up on the bottom of the previous page and the second one on the top of the new page.

I could use two separate figure numbers, but then I would need to change the text that references the figures (and when the layout changes, so that I would figure out that both figures would eventually fit on a single page, I would have to change the text again).

Is there any reasonable (and acceptable) solution to that? One option would be to have "Figure 1.5a: description" on the first page and "Figure 1.5b: description" on the second page while a reference to the figure would still show "Figure 1.5", but I'm not sure if this is doable.

I would like to hear if anyone had a similar "challenge" and what solution you used.

\setupexternalfigure[location=default]

\starttext

\dorecurse{5}{\input ward } %\dorecurse{2}{\input ward }

\startplacefigure[location=split,title=Float dummy] \startxtable[frame=off,align=middle] \startxrow \startxcell \dontleavehmode\externalfigure[cow] \stopxcell \stopxrow \startxrow \startxcell \dontleavehmode\externalfigure[hacker] \stopxcell \stopxrow \stopxtable \stopplacefigure

\stoptext

Impressive.

I'm still scratching my head because I don't understand the magic behind this trick (unless Hans and Wolfgang were reading my mind a while ago when this was implemented), but curiously it does exactly what I wanted to achieve.

To Alan:

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What is the philosophical difference between Figure 1.5a ... Figure 1.5b and Figure 1.5 ... Figure 1.6?

The difference is that one then needs to say "See Figure 1.5 and 1.6" somewhere in text instead of just "See Figure 1.5".

\startplacefigure[location=here,reference=first, title=first, group=alpha,groupsuffix=.a] \externalfigure[dummy][height=2cm] \stopplacefigure \startplacefigure[location=here,reference=second,title=second,group=alpha,groupsuffix=.b] \externalfigure[dummy][height=2cm] \stopplacefigure ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------