Many thanks to everyone for advice - I combined various suggestions and
managed to end up with a landscape picture occupying the full page.
The various options for removing the running headline seemed not to work -
I was hopeful that headerstate=empty might, but \placefigure seems not to
admit this as an option, and I didn't want to get too involved with
Hraban's elegant solution for bleeding illustrations (which may well be
useful in future work). At any rate, I cheated by putting this hamfisted
code in front of the caption:
\llap{\color[white]{\smash{\vrule height 310pt depth 24pt width 24pt}}\kern
12pt}
That doesn't remove the headline but it obliterates it!
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On Mon, 7 Jul 2025 at 22:27, Wolfgang Schuster <
wolfgang.schuster.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Am 07.07.2025 um 16:22 schrieb John Was:
> > Hello
> >
> > Is it possible to suppress the headline on pages which are entirely
> > occupied by an illustration? This is sometimes useful to maximize the
> > space available for the picture, especially a landscape picture with a
> > lot of detail.
> >
> > I have used 'orientation=270' to position a figure in landscape mode,
> > with the width set to the vertical height of the page (or close to it if
> > that would make the overall size too large). But I haven't worked out
> > how to set the caption underneath the figure (that is, rotate the
> > caption also, using the full width of the figure): the caption appears
> > at the bottom of the page as for a portrait-oriented figure, which is
> > inconvenient for the reader.
>
> You already got a few suggestions but for a better answer it is always
> helpful to provide a minimal example which shows what you have tried so
> far. To create an example without the need for external ressources you
> can either use one of the included sample images
>
> %%%% begin example
> \setupexternalfigures[location=default]
>
> \starttext
>
> \startcombination[2*2]
> {\externalfigure[spider.eps][combination]}{spider.eps}
> {\externalfigure [mill.png][combination]}{mill.png}
> {\externalfigure [cow.pdf][combination]}{cow.pdf}
> {\externalfigure[hacker.jpg][combination]}{hacker.png}
> \stopcombination
>
> \stoptext
> %%%% end example
>
> or use the dummy library to add random backgrounds to images.
>
> %%%% begin example
> \useMPlibrary[dum]
>
> \starttext
>
> \startcombination[3*1]
> {\externalfigure [wide][width=6cm,height=4cm]}{}
> {\externalfigure[equal][width=4cm,height=4cm]}{}
> {\externalfigure [tall][width=4cm,height=6cm]}{}
> \stopcombination
>
> \stoptext
> %%%% end example
>
> Wolfgang
>
>
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