Equivalent in ConTeXt mkiv for LaTeX's picture environment?

Equivalent in ConTeXt mkiv for LaTeX's picture environment?

[Thomas Fehige]

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.)

Cheers -- Thomas
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Re: Equivalent in ConTeXt mkiv for LaTeX's picture environment?

[Henning Hraban Ramm]

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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Re: Equivalent in ConTeXt mkiv for LaTeX's picture environment?

[Aditya Mahajan]

On Sat, 25 Jun 2016, Thomas Fehige wrote:

> 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.)

Depends on the specifics. If you just want to place labels, then use 
layers. If you want labels + measuring stuff + drawing lines etc., then 
use a combination of layers and metapost.

Aditya
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Re: Equivalent in ConTeXt mkiv for LaTeX's picture environment?

[Wolfgang Schuster]

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> Thomas Fehige <mailto:thomas@fehige.de>
> 25. Juni 2016 um 20:31
> 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.)
A third method apart from layers and metapost is the positioning 
environment.

\setupexternalfigure[location=default]

\starttext

\startpositioning
\position(0,0){\externalfigure[cow][width=\textwidth]}
\position(1.5,2){\color[green]{HEAD}}
\position(10,6.5){\color[red]{UDDER}}
\stoppositioning

\stoptext

Wolfgang

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