[NTG-context] placefigure: mysterious whitespace with 'rightmargi n'figures

[David Arnold]

Sanjoy,

Hans had me do the following and it worked.

\placefigure
[inright,reset][fig:graphmap]
{A mapping diagram for $f$.}
{\externalfigure[graph1][width=\marginwidth]}


On Apr 5, 2006, at 9:49 PM, Sanjoy Mahajan wrote:

> I tested the following on the context live.  Both figures are in the
> margin, but the first and second paragraphs have a large gap between
> them with figure 1 in the margin, beside the gap.  My first theory was
> that the margin figure requires the whitespace (unlikely, I know).   
> But
> that theory didn't last long: If I restore the commented-out '\input
> knuth' line, then the layout has no gaps.
>
> ======================================================================
> \useMPlibrary[dum]
>
> \starttext
> \input tufte
> \placefigure[rightmargin]{first}{\externalfigure[dummy]} \par
> %\input knuth
> \placefigure[rightmargin]{third}{\externalfigure[dummy]} \par
> \input knuth
> \stoptext
> ======================================================================
>
>
> -Sanjoy
>
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