Hi John,
You can use the inline option:
\setupexternalfigures[location=default]
\starttext
Is it this \externalfigure[hacker.jpg][height=2ex,inline]{} or
\externalfigure[cow][height=2ex,inline]{}
what you mean?
\stoptext
Matthias
> On Aug 10, 2025, at 5:26 AM, John Was <johno...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear Wolfgang and Pablo
>
> Many thanks for the replies. I've no immediate requirement for small in-text
> graphics but it's the sort of thing that could well come up in a journal
> article or some of the early English volumes I copy-edit and typeset. (But my
> lateral-thinking brain is just beginning to formulate a possible adaptation
> for footnote tagging - more anon. if I get anywhere with this.)
>
> It's good to know that some of these hieroglyphs are available in Unicode
> (the specialist article I had to typeset had some non-standard requirements
> specific to a certain set of inscriptions.)
>
> I well remember the relief when Unicode support came in for TeX. Suddenly
> the first line of the Iliad could appear as:
>
> Μῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ Πηληϊάδεω Ἀχιλῆος,
>
> whereas before I had had to get used to:
>
> {\porsongreek M{\etacircumflex}nin {\alphalenisacute}eide, ue{\alphaacute},
> Phlh{iotadiaeresis}{\alphaacute}dev {\Alphalenis}xil{\etacircumflex}ow}
>
> It's surprising how quickly that sort of thing becomes legible! In those
> days I latched on to WordPerfect (and even CP/M's LocoScript), which had
> unique slots for Greek and Cyrillic characters, so that the rebarbative
> coding I had invented could be introduced automatically with multiple
> search-and-replace operations. I'm sure all this kept the brain active (like
> pre-decimal coinage) - but then so does learning ConTexT.
>
> Best wishes
>
> John 🇪🇺 Слава Україні! 🇺🇦
>
>
> On Sat, 9 Aug 2025 at 16:37, Wolfgang Schuster
> <wolfgang.schuster.li...@gmail.com
> <mailto:wolfgang.schuster.li...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>> Am 09.08.2025 um 17:04 schrieb John Was:
>> > Hello list
>> >
>> > Some years ago, when plain TeX was still pure ASCII, I had to set an
>> > article on Luwian hieroglyphs, which involved a large number of very
>> > small scans that appeared in running text without disturbing the
>> > interlinear spacing. If I wanted to do the same in ConTexT, what would
>> > be the preferred method (both in the preamble and in the text itself)?
>>
>> Native support for Unicode in plain TeX is possible since more than 2
>> decades with the introduction of XeTeX.
>>
>> > Ideally I would want the label option to work for the benefit of any
>> > visually impaired readers accessing the PDF. The following MWE doesn't
>> > seem to work (which means no more than that I am still regrettably
>> > ignorant of ConTexT's capabilities with artwork):
>>
>> 1. Context doesn't load images present in the TeX tree unless you tel it
>> to do so.
>>
>> 2. The cow sample figure is provided as a pdf file while you try to load
>> an jpeg image.
>>
>> Be aware the keys for additional texts of figures have ben changed to
>> descriptiontext and alternativetext.
>>
>> > \starttext
>> >
>> > The small cow \externalfigure[cow.jpg]
>> > [width=0.5em,height=2ex,label={This is a small cow.}] was attacked by
>> > the quick brown fox that jumped over the lazy dog's back.\stoptext
>>
>> \setupexternalfigures[location={local,global,default}]
>>
>> \starttext
>>
>> Cow: \externalfigure[cow][height=2ex].
>>
>> Cow: \offset[y=sd]\externalfigure[cow][height=lh].
>>
>> \stoptext
>>
>> Wolfgang
>>
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