From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/9481 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bill McClain Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Figure combination Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 09:40:03 -0500 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <20021004094003.234d9f7f.wmcclain@salamander.com> References: <3FE64D5C2097CB4987A92D4FBC0927AA2AB3D3@ntintran.nlr.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035399800 3403 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 19:03:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 19:03:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-Received: from hermes.hrz.uni-giessen.de (hermes.hrz.uni-giessen.de [134.176.2.15]) by osiris.hrz.uni-giessen.de (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g94EgWj25026 for ; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 16:42:32 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from smail.let.uu.nl by hermes.hrz.uni-giessen.de with ESMTP for Guenter.Partosch@hrz.uni-giessen.de; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 16:42:08 +0200 Original-Received: by smail.let.uu.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3/JEvW) id QAA04877 for ntg-context-list; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 16:39:59 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: smail.let.uu.nl: majordom set sender to owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl using -f Original-Received: from spider.let.uu.nl (spider.let.uu.nl [131.211.194.47]) by smail.let.uu.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3/JEvW) with ESMTP id QAA04873 for ; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 16:39:56 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: from barry.mail.mindspring.net (barry.mail.mindspring.net [207.69.200.25]) by spider.let.uu.nl (8.11.2/8.11.2/SYSADM) with ESMTP id g94Edt203041 for ; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 16:39:55 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from pmdeco1-42.rconnect.com ([209.163.54.42] helo=atipa.local) by barry.mail.mindspring.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17xTcE-0001EK-00 for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Fri, 04 Oct 2002 10:39:47 -0400 Original-Received: from atipa.local (wmcclain@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by atipa.local (8.11.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with SMTP id g94Ee3w02134 for ; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 09:40:03 -0500 In-Reply-To: <3FE64D5C2097CB4987A92D4FBC0927AA2AB3D3@ntintran.nlr.nl> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.8claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; ) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:9481 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:9481 On Fri, 4 Oct 2002 15:17:46 +0200 "Woering, A.A." wrote: > Following a posted suggestion I used the following. It feels like a > workaround though. Using layers you can also do direct x-y positioning of your components: \definelayer[frontispiece] \defineoverlay[frontispiece][\composedlayer{frontispiece}] \setupbackgrounds[page][background=frontispiece] \setlayer[frontispiece][x=0in,y=0in]{\externalfigure[frontispiece]} I have only one component here, but I believe you can repeat the \setlayer with different x-y for the other components. (Sorry: "frontispiece" is a label for three different things here: layer, overlay, graphic). I worked this out from examples in the mailing list archives. I don't see it my docs yet, but I haven't downloaded docs for a while. A trick I have used when faced with complicated graphic setups is to create separate documents as little mini pages, create them as correctly sized PDFs and then include the PDFs as graphics in the main document. If I were a real ConTeXt users I suppose I would know how to use metapost... -Bill -- Sattre Press The King in Yellow http://sattre-press.com/ by Robert W. Chambers info@sattre-press.com http://kiy.sattre-press.com/