Re: Placing figures and layers?

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 04:42 PM 4/18/01 +0200, AlterEgo Qasars wrote:
>Dear friends.
>
>Encouraged with the fact that my new nick name works
>and I've got some answers, I try other two questions.
>Probably directly to Mr. Hagen?
>
>1) You showed me that your new beta is able to put
>floats anywhere on the page. I'm extremely looking
>forward to this very feature. Can you hint me how
>to use it?

not yet, first i move new font code into the core [currently taco does some
testing as well as adapts the math module to it], then i will start with
incorporating the new otr macros  

>2) There was some speech about layers. I played with
>them a little, but I wasn't able to guess neither
>how to use it, nor for what purpose is it suited.
>Can you make it clear to me? (BTW, what's the proper
>English equivalent of the last sentence? :-)

There are several applications: 

(1) mimmicking dtp, that is, position texts and graphics op fixed places on
the page 
(2) move text/graphics from foreground to another layer, i.e. behind/before
text
(3) doing metafun position related things automatically (since a layer can
have its own reference point)

in practice it's just a shell around overlays [backgrounds]; we used it for
building spread based titlepages with multiple graphics, backgrounds,
title, toc and texts in a more convenient way.    

I will explain this in a next release of the metafun manual 

>Many greetings from the beatuful town of Brno.

Isn't it a city then? 

Hans

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