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From: Marco Patzer <homerow@lavabit.com>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Overlays as background in textbackground
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 11:57:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130715095750.GZ12367@homerow> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51E3BF5A.3070804@wxs.nl>


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On 2013–07–15 Hans Hagen wrote:

> On 7/14/2013 8:54 PM, Marco Patzer wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >overlays are not displayed when used as a background for
> >textbackground. Is this a bug or are overlays not supported?
> 
> in principle we can make it pluggable (given that there is some
> sensible way to pass info and real need for it)

No, I don't need it.

> \definetextbackground [mybackgroundOverlay] [mp=mpos:region:whatever]
> 
> \startuseMPgraphic{mpos:region:whatever}
>     for i=1 upto nofmultipars :
>         draw textext("\externalfigure[cow.pdf]") rotated 10 shifted
> center multipars[i] ;
>     endfor ;
> \stopuseMPgraphic
> 
> \starttext
> 
>   \startmybackgroundOverlay
>         \dorecurse{10}{\input knuth \par}
>   \stopmybackgroundOverlay
> 
> \stoptext

Thanks for the example.

Marco

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-15  9:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-14 18:54 Marco Patzer
2013-07-14 19:36 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2013-07-14 21:58   ` Marco Patzer
2013-07-15  9:22 ` Hans Hagen
2013-07-15  9:57   ` Marco Patzer [this message]
2016-05-18 11:55   ` Meer, Hans van der
2016-05-18 18:24     ` Alan BRASLAU

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