[NTG-context] placefloat

[Taco Hoekwater]

Hans van der Meer wrote:
> (1) My intention was to place some material into the left margin on  the 
> page, but did not succeed.

Added to the collector. I'm positive that there is at least a little
bug somewhere in your list of problems, but I have no time right now
to do research.

> 
> (2) Second question. Is there a mechanism whereby one can force the  
> float to at least the next page when there is no room for it below  the 
> current point on the page?

There is:

   \startpostponing
     <stuff with postponed floats>
   \stoppostponing

I believe it is mentioned in a manual somewhere, but don't recall
off-hand which one. However, I'm not confident that that mechanism
does precisey what you want, and it is definately not automatic.

Cheers, Taco