Re: Learning layers: setlayer vs. setlayerframed

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

Am 26.10.2011 um 09:42 schrieb Mari Voipio:

> Hello!
> 
> Based on a discussion with Hans at the ConTeXt meeting I'm starting to
> migrate my book covers from CorelDraw to ConTeXt using layers.
> 
> After a bit of experimenting I managed to achieve my first layer, but
> looking at the examples on the wiki page, I'm wondering: what's the
> difference between \setlayer and \setlayerframed.
> 
> Is the latter a subset of the first and possibly equal to
> 
> \setlayer	[name]	% name of the layer
> {\framed[...=...,...=...]{LAYER}}  % the actual contents of the layer
> 
> or something else?

Yes, this is more or less the definition of \setlayerframed.

> And which one should I use, anyway? I need to put a bit of text and a
> bit of graphics onto the pages, but nothing complicated, just "boxes".
> But as I'm starting from zero, it would be nice to know what's the
> smartest way of doing it (on the moment).

For the graphics you can use \setlayer but \setlayerframed is better when
you a longer text which should be broken into lines.

Wolfgang

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