From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/6814 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Johannes_H=FCsing?= Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: PDF-bookmarks and title pages Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 20:31:25 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <20020204203125.A861@ruhrau.de> References: <5.1.0.14.1.20020131172223.03ba85c0@server-1> <3C595A0B.B7FEB5CA@ivs.tu-berlin.de> <3C595A0B.B7FEB5CA@ivs.tu-berlin.de> <5.1.0.14.1.20020131172223.03ba85c0@server-1> <5.1.0.14.1.20020202105211.02abb008@server-1> Reply-To: johannes.huesing@ruhrau.de NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035397322 14017 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:22:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:22:02 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.1.20020202105211.02abb008@server-1> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:6814 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:6814 On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 10:55:38AM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: [me:] > >is there already documentation about layers? I am puzzled > >trying to separate the concept from overlays. > > there is some explanation of layers in the metafun manual. > > layers are kind of related to overlays, consider them a structure that is > meant to be used in layers > That's what I mean :-) overlays superimpose too. > they collect content and permit positioning and moving around, to my mind the main distinction to overlays. > the layer > content either or not can be repeated, and tight to (named and numbered) > pages; currently i'm playing with prebuild layer options for adding > text/graphics etc to pages so that one can create rather complex title pages > > [actually, it would be nice to have a graphical user interface to layers] > I see many-a-program shy away from rendering postscript or PDF (Microsoft products as well as eg tgif), so I'm always under the impression that it is not a trivial task to build anything like that. Greetings Johannes -- Johannes Hüsing There is something fascinating about science. One gets hannes@ruhrau.de such wholesale returns of conjecture from such a trifling investment of fact. Mark Twain