From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/4564 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Placing figures and layers? Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 22:35:33 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20010420223533.009e07c0@server-1> References: <200104181442.f3IEgSf19656@merkur.econ.muni.cz> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035395219 26737 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:46:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:46:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ConTeXt mailing list Original-To: AlterEgo Qasars In-Reply-To: <200104181442.f3IEgSf19656@merkur.econ.muni.cz> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:4564 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:4564 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------