Re: Bug: Messy results when using "table" in head and multi-page "tables" in text

["Wolfgang Schuster" <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>]

On Jan 20, 2008 8:07 PM, Carsten Fechtmann <fecht@zarm-technik.de> wrote:
>
> Dear Wolfgang,
>
> first, I _really_ appreciate your effort. Unfortunately, for me
> \framed is not likely to do the job, as the header is a bit more
> complicated in real-life (I told you so ;-).
> And yes, actually, using framed had been my very first approach as the
> original LaTeX layout had been using \begin{picture} ...
> \end{picture}. Therefore, I thought at that time going the \framed
> route should do the trick....
>
> Here is an (still simplified) example why I don't think it would
>
> \setuplayout[%
>    width=160mm,
>    topspace=10mm,
>    header=35mm,
>    headerdistance=5mm,
> ]
> \setuppagenumbering[location=]
> \setupheadertexts[\setups{pagehead}][][\setups{pagehead}][]
>
> \startsetups[pagehead]
>    \setupframed[offset=3pt]
>    \setupcombinations[distance=-\linewidth,width=160mm,align=no]
>    \dontleavehmode
>    \startcombination[3]
>    {\framed[align={right,lohi},height=27mm,width=35mm\relax]
>      { LOGO  } }
>    {\framed[align={right,lohi},width=35mm\relax]
>      {left} }
>    {\framed[align={middle,lohi},height=27mm,width=80mm\relax]
>      {titel } }
>    {\framed[align={middle,lohi},width=80mm\relax]
>      {middle} }
>    {\framed[align={right,lohi},height=27mm,width=45mm\relax]
>      {other stuff}  }
>    {\framed[align={middle,lohi},width=45mm\relax]
>      {Page:~\pagenumber\ of \lastpage}}
>    \stopcombination
> \stopsetups
>
> \starttext
> \input knuth
> \stoptext
>
> Again, as I am still new to ConTeXt, there might be a way to get rid
> of the spaces between the frames, somehow. But I still would -- in the
> real version -- also need some extra alignments within some cells and
> in short this gets just more ugly with every further step.
>
> I also had been thinking about going the "metafun" route. However, I
> do need a simple, out of the box solution that even the greenest TeX
> newbie could use and setup on all sorts of OS's ...
> In short, I fear that is also not going to be a choice at the moment.

Hi Carsten,

I have another solution for you, you could use a layer to place the header
on every page.

\setuppagenumbering[location=]

\startsetups[pagehead]
\bTABLE[offset=3pt]
  \bTR
    \bTD[align={right,lohi},height=27mm,width=35mm] LOGO \eTD
   \bTD[align={middle,lohi},height=27mm,width=80mm] titel \eTD
   \bTD[align={right,lohi},height=27mm,width=45mm] other stuff \eTD
  \eTR
  \bTR
    \bTD[align={right,lohi},width=35mm] left \eTD
    \bTD[align={middle,lohi},width=80mm] middle \eTD
    \bTD[align={middle,lohi},width=45mm] Page:~\pagenumber\ of \lastpage \eTD
  \eTR
\eTABLE
\stopsetups

\definelayer
  [pagehead]
  [width=\paperwidth,
   height=\paperheight,
   state=repeat]

\setlayer
  [pagehead]
  [hoffset=\backspace,
   voffset=\topspace]
  {\setups{pagehead}}

\setupbackgrounds[page][background=pagehead]


Greetings

Wolfgang
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