* Position of figures @ 1999-10-21 6:14 Haseloff, Lutz 1999-10-21 11:44 ` Hans Hagen 0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread From: Haseloff, Lutz @ 1999-10-21 6:14 UTC (permalink / raw) Hi all, Is it possible in ConTeXt to place a figure or text on the page *independent* of all other contents of the page and *independent* of the margins? In LaTeX it was possible with the at.sty. I tried out the Command \position(number,number){text}, but it places text and figures depending from the current Position and gives me many overfull \hbox and \vbox messages, \hss and \vss didn´t help. My TeX Knowledge isn´t that deep, that i could change the content of \output without crashing ConTeXt. Thank you and excuse my bad english Lutz btw, what means degelijkheid? ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: Position of figures 1999-10-21 6:14 Position of figures Haseloff, Lutz @ 1999-10-21 11:44 ` Hans Hagen 1999-10-22 3:00 ` NTG international (was Re: Position of figures) Ed L. Cashin 0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread From: Hans Hagen @ 1999-10-21 11:44 UTC (permalink / raw) Cc: ntg-context "Haseloff, Lutz" wrote: > Is it possible in ConTeXt to place a figure or text on the page > *independent* of all other > contents of the page and *independent* of the margins? > In LaTeX it was possible with the at.sty. > I tried out the Command \position(number,number){text}, but it places > text and figures depending from the current Position and gives me many > overfull \hbox and \vbox messages, \hss and \vss didn´t help. > My TeX Knowledge isn´t that deep, that i could change the content of \output > without crashing ConTeXt. There are two mechanisms, one is described in the chapters I posted recently , and deals with logo's, the other, more frequently used mechanism is called overlays. Say you have: \defineoverlay[thisorthat][{\externalfigure[...]}] then you can say: \setupbackgrounds [text][text] [background=thisorthat] or even a collection of overlays, like background={color,one,two,three} where color refers to the current backgroundcolor. When dealing with overlays, one can use \overlaywidth and \overlayheight as dimensions (macros actually). Overlays can be put behind all relevant areas: headers, footers, text, margin, edge, top, bottom, and page. The latter permits you to exactly position the figure, the former force consistency. There is much more to say to this btw. In my spare moments, 'm working on graphics layering as well, which means graphics on and across layers, hooked into overlays. Rather nice (and even impressive) I would say. Here I also have an experimental page model for metapost, which means that one can have graphics that uses dimensions and positions fed by tex, but permits more clever graphics. In the next MAPS I will (if taco permits me) present some of this, so maybe this is a reason to join the NTG -) Hans > btw, what means degelijkheid? Ha, you refer to the language documentation where I classify according to proverbs and so. It means that when germans do something they do it quite well, they go for it, proper stuff and so. If you want to buy a 'degelijke' car, you'd better buy german. Of course 'degelijkheid' can have its backsides too -) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* NTG international (was Re: Position of figures) 1999-10-21 11:44 ` Hans Hagen @ 1999-10-22 3:00 ` Ed L. Cashin 1999-10-22 8:31 ` Hans Hagen 1999-10-22 15:31 ` Berend de Boer 0 siblings, 2 replies; 5+ messages in thread From: Ed L. Cashin @ 1999-10-22 3:00 UTC (permalink / raw) Cc: Haseloff, Lutz, ntg-context Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> writes: > In the next MAPS I will (if taco permits me) present some of this, > so maybe this is a reason to join the NTG -) Would it be too strange for a person from as far away as Georgia in the USA to join the NTG? -- --Ed Cashin ecashin@coe.uga.edu ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: NTG international (was Re: Position of figures) 1999-10-22 3:00 ` NTG international (was Re: Position of figures) Ed L. Cashin @ 1999-10-22 8:31 ` Hans Hagen 1999-10-22 15:31 ` Berend de Boer 1 sibling, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread From: Hans Hagen @ 1999-10-22 8:31 UTC (permalink / raw) Cc: Haseloff, Lutz, ntg-context "Ed L. Cashin" wrote: > > In the next MAPS I will (if taco permits me) present some of this, > > so maybe this is a reason to join the NTG -) > > Would it be too strange for a person from as far away as Georgia in > the USA to join the NTG? The NTG has quite some non||dutch/belgian members and the MAPS is dutch/english. Maybe taco (maps editor) can send you a 'review' copy. (The polish user group has quite some non polish members btw, if you ever can make it to their bachotek conference ... you'll probably wanted to become a life long member too -). Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* RE: NTG international (was Re: Position of figures) 1999-10-22 3:00 ` NTG international (was Re: Position of figures) Ed L. Cashin 1999-10-22 8:31 ` Hans Hagen @ 1999-10-22 15:31 ` Berend de Boer 1 sibling, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread From: Berend de Boer @ 1999-10-22 15:31 UTC (permalink / raw) Cc: ntg-context > Would it be too strange for a person from as far away as Georgia in > the USA to join the NTG? If you promise to come to every meeting :-) Groetjes, Berend. (-: ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
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