Hi Peter, your simple but great idea works fantastically! Thank you very much!

Anyhow you can combine pic02 and pic03

{\vbox{\externalfigure[pic02.jpg][scale=1000] \blank[whatever is needed] \externalfigure[pic03.jpg][scale=1000]}} {Caption}

and use two [2*1] combinations.

Just a fast example with \framed instead of \externalfigure

% - - - - - - - - \setupoutput[pdftex]

\starttext

\def\Double{\vbox{\framed[width=0.3\textwidth,height=.14\textheight]{} \blank[.02\textheight] \framed[width=0.3\textwidth,height=.14\textheight]{}}}

\startcombination[2*1] {\framed[width=0.6\textwidth,height=.3\textheight]{}}{1} {{\Double}}{2 and 3} \stopcombination

\blank

\startcombination[2*1] {\framed[width=0.45\textwidth,height=.2\textheight]{}}{4} {\framed[width=0.45\textwidth,height=.2\textheight]{}}{5} \stopcombination

\stoptext

luigi scarso wrote:

My 2 cents: Why not use a table ?

maybe also an option, but how will you set the different widths for pic01 and pic04 (2,3 and 5) in the same column? i know that you can span columns, but can you set the width of every column at row level? i must say, that i haven't tried that yet. greetings, peter

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Claudia Lanzl wrote:

Hi Peter, hi Luigi,

didn´t think of tables and I don´t know much about it, but maybe a combination of your ideas? Two tables (the first for picture 1, 2 and 3) and a second one for picture 4 and 5?

i don't think that using two tables brings you any advantage (especially the second one would be only overhead). instead you can use a table with tree columns (is this what you ment, luigi?) the idea is to add a column every time a picture ends in a new tab position. simply draw long vertical lines at every right picture border in your example layout and you can see the columns. the 1st column has the width of pic04 the 2nd column has the width of (pic01-pic04) the 3rd column has the width of pic02 pic01 spans the first two columns. pic02 and pic03 are in the third column. pic04 is in the first column. pic05 spans the second and third column. pic01 has also vertical spanning (first two rows). feel free to try it (i think TABLE is good for this). see http://wiki.contextgarden.net/TABLE#Designing_complex_TABLEs for the details or better: ask luigi ;) greetings, peter

Greetings, Claudia

Peter Rolf wrote:

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luigi scarso wrote:

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My 2 cents: Why not use a table ?

maybe also an option, but how will you set the different widths for pic01 and pic04 (2,3 and 5) in the same column? i know that you can span columns, but can you set the width of every column at row level? i must say, that i haven't tried that yet.

greetings, peter

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luigi

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On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, luigi scarso wrote:

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Claudia Lanzl wrote:

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Hi Peter, hi Luigi,

didn´t think of tables and I don´t know much about it, but maybe a combination of your ideas? Two tables (the first for picture 1, 2 and 3) and a second one for picture 4 and 5?

i don't think that using two tables brings you any advantage (especially the second one would be only overhead). instead you can use a table with tree columns (is this what you ment, luigi?) ~Yes. The first time i saw it i thought something like this width(pic02) = 2*U width(pic03) = 2*U width(pic05) = 3*U width(pic04) = 3*U width(pic01) = 4*U

On 1/22/07, Peter Rolf wrote: plus some rows for labels and maybe some 0.2*U for columns for separations.

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http://wiki.contextgarden.net/TABLE#Designing_complex_TABLEs and core-ntb.tex or texmfstart texexec --pdf --modu core-ntb

Actually texmfstart texexec --module kpse:core-ntb.tex which will work from any directory. Aditya