From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/81972 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Ellis Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Is fine-grained grid control possible? Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 22:28:02 +0100 Message-ID: <20130419212802.GM27030@weber> References: <20130419082923.GH25092@weber> <20130419162111.GH27030@weber> <20130419202457.GL27030@weber> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1366406667 6758 80.91.229.3 (19 Apr 2013 21:24:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:24:27 +0000 (UTC) To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Apr 19 23:24:31 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UTInH-0004vQ-98 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Apr 2013 23:24:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73920101EB; Fri, 19 Apr 2013 23:24:30 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id x08CxmZL+WVk; Fri, 19 Apr 2013 23:24:27 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22492101E6; Fri, 19 Apr 2013 23:24:27 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72A72101E6 for ; Fri, 19 Apr 2013 23:24:25 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id rDHB-RObS+Dg for ; Fri, 19 Apr 2013 23:24:23 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter3-til.mf.surf.net (filter3-til.mf.surf.net [194.171.167.219]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0ADBF101E4 for ; Fri, 19 Apr 2013 23:24:22 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balrog.mythic-beasts.com (balrog.mythic-beasts.com [93.93.130.6]) by filter3-til.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-9.4) with ESMTP id r3JLOLE7007453 for ; Fri, 19 Apr 2013 23:24:22 +0200 Original-Received: from [81.187.0.149] (port=43677 helo=weber) by balrog.mythic-beasts.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UTIn7-0006Bf-Fl for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Fri, 19 Apr 2013 22:24:21 +0100 Original-Received: from tom by weber with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UTIqg-0007Uq-Nw for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Fri, 19 Apr 2013 22:28:02 +0100 Mail-Followup-To: Tom Ellis , ntg-context@ntg.nl Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Penguin-0: * .^. * X-Penguin-1: - /V\ - X-Penguin-2: * // \\ * X-Penguin-3: - /( )\ - X-Penguin-4: * ^^-^^ * User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-BlackCat-Spam-Score: -28 X-Mythic-Debug: Threshold = On = X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=93.93.130.6; country=GB; latitude=51.5000; longitude=-0.1300; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=51.5000,-0.1300&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 06JpVomOG - 36f6691fc15e - 20130419 (trained as not-spam) X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 194.171.167.219 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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 Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:81972 Archived-At: On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 04:35:52PM -0400, Aditya Mahajan wrote: > On Fri, 19 Apr 2013, Tom Ellis wrote: > >I care about having fine-grained control over the exact placement of labels > >and boxes. That is, can I place boxes and text labels at exact coordinates > >on a page, either in absolute terms or relative to each other? That's all > >I'm after. > > http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Layers > > This allows you to place any content at any location on a page, > inside a frame, on an image, etc. Very nice, thank you Aditya. ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________