Floating Objects

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Floats are elements like tables or figures that are placed (and numbered) automatically by TeX.

Floats are ConTeXt's "base class" for everything that uses a \place... command (table, figure, own floats).

If you search options of e.g. \placeexternalfigure you must look after \placefloat in the manual! (same for \setup... etc.)

The float types "graphic", "figure", "table" and "intermezzo" are readily defined. If you need more (i.e. if you need another numbering or table of something), you can easily define your own floats with \definefloat.

\placefloat[place][reference]{caption}{some float}

place is one or several (comma separated) of:

preference	result
left	left of text
right	right of text
here	preferably here
top	at top of page
bottom	at bottom of page
inleft	in left margin
inright	in right margin
inmargin	in the margin (left or right)
margin	in the margin (margin float)
page	on a new (empty) page
opposite	on the left page
always	precedence over stored floats
force	per se here

(table copied from the manual)

reference

If you don't need to refer to your float, you can leave this parameter out.

caption

You get no caption with the keyword none.