From: Henning Hraban Ramm <texml@fiee.net>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Equivalent in ConTeXt mkiv for LaTeX's picture environment?
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2016 07:06:43 +0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <29A8F8C5-B82E-4149-A29F-28F1ACA68C3D@fiee.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <576ECDFF.9030001@fehige.de>
Am 2016-06-26 um 00:31 schrieb Thomas Fehige <thomas@fehige.de>:
> The headline says it: As a convert from LaTeX I'm looking for the functionality of LaTeX's picture environment, i.e. the placing of boxes et al. according to absolute coordinates, possibly with calculating measurements and coordinates on the go, like the stuff provided by the picture package on LaTeX. (It's labels for cider bottles this time.)
You’re looking for layers: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Layers
and maybe XY imposition: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Imposition#XY_schema
Greetlings, Hraban
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-25 18:31 Thomas Fehige
2016-06-26 1:06 ` Henning Hraban Ramm [this message]
2016-06-26 1:59 ` Aditya Mahajan
2016-06-26 23:16 ` Wolfgang Schuster
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