From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/16564 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eckhart =?iso-8859-1?Q?Guth=F6hrlein?= Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: positioning layers again Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 10:17:18 +0200 Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Message-ID: <20040930081718.GB14329@cebitec.uni-bielefeld.de> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1096532248 13193 80.91.229.6 (30 Sep 2004 08:17:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 08:17:28 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Sep 30 10:17:25 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CCw7x-00027t-00 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 10:17:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D68E112788; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 10:17:24 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 12474-03; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 10:17:22 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDAC51277B; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 10:17:21 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0553F1277B for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 10:17:21 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 12264-07 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 10:17:20 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp-relay.CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE (unknown [129.70.160.28]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5118F12777 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 10:17:20 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp-relay.CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC6422D607 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 10:17:19 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from smtp-relay.CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (sauron [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 22744-01-6 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 10:17:19 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from bagheera.Genetik.Uni-Bielefeld.DE (bagheera.CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE [129.70.160.62]) by smtp-relay.CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFD172D601 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 10:17:18 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: by bagheera.Genetik.Uni-Bielefeld.DE (Postfix, from userid 13119) id ACEF1EBC; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 10:17:18 +0200 (MEST) Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Mail-Followup-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at cebitec.uni-bielefeld.de X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:16564 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:16564 Hi all, I have managed to create my poster, arranging stuff on the page using layers. But I have to admit that I have used hard-coded coordinates for all layers. (I used a metapost grid in the background for measuring and aligning in the draft version.) If anybody is interested, I can make the poster and the source available online after the conference. I don't want to be nerving, but to make things easier in the future, I would like to repeat my question: How to position layers relative to each other, not relative to a common coordinate origin? (So that you don't have to move subsequent layers if some box changes its height etc.) I have experimented a bit with the stuff in the 'positional graphics' chapter of the metafun manual, but didn't make it. So, thanks for hints and suggestions. Regards, -- Eckhart