Re: No output for layers

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

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 3:19 PM, Oliver Buerschaper
<oliver.buerschaper@mpq.mpg.de> wrote:
>>> Do you perhaps also know how to draw a frame around the layer
>>> boundary? The command \setlayerframed only seems to encapsulate the
>>> actual content with a frame …
>>
>> Can you be more concrete, what do you mean by boundry oround the
>> layer.
>
> I'm thinking of a frame that visualizes the actual drawable rectangle
> of the layer … that is, for
>
> \definelayer
>        [mylayer]
>        [x=78mm,
>         y=3mm,
>         height=43.5mm,
>         width=128mm]
>
> I would like a frame to be drawn around the box whose dimensions and
> location on the page are specified by x, y, height and width. I'd also
> be fine if this area could be shaded with some background colour.
>
> With \setlayerframed I seem to only get a frame which fits the actual
> content snugly, e.g. if I draw the text "Hello world" into the layer
> then a small frame will be drawn around this text only and not around
> the entire layer box …

Set the values with \setlayer and not with \definelayer.

> See what I mean?

\definelayer
  [mylayer]

\starttext

\setlayerframed
  [mylayer]
  [x=78mm,
   y=3mm,
   height=43.5mm,
   width=68mm]
  {framed layer}

\flushlayer[mylayer]

\stoptext

Wolfgang
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