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From: Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Layer vs. overlay
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 19:11:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <37BA1BD5-D127-4A53-887A-92F5C19FF3A0@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.wqs70rmxdk1lar@lk-2008-nbk>


Am 12.01.2013 um 18:54 schrieb Procházka Lukáš <LPr@pontex.cz>:

> Hello Wolfgang,
> 
> some more attempts:
> 
> The sample Lay3 is simple enough and brings some text to the top of the page:
> 
> ----
> \setupbodyfont[30pt]
> \setuplayout[page]
> 
> \starttext
>  \definelayer[beforetext]
> 
>  \setupbackgrounds
>    [page]
>    [background={foreground,beforetext}]
> 
>  \setlayer[beforetext]{\red BEFORE}
> 
>  The Text!
> \stoptext
> ----
> 
> This works well.
> 
> The Lay4 differs in one point - it encloses the text into \start/stop-TEXpage:
> 
> ----
> \setupbodyfont[30pt]
> 
> \starttext
>  \startTEXpage
>    \definelayer[beforetext]
> 
>    \setupbackgrounds
>      [page]
>      [background={foreground,beforetext}]
> 
>    \setlayer[beforetext]{\red BEFORE}
> 
>    The Text!
>  \stopTEXpage
> \stoptext
> ----
> 
> In the latter case, the red text "BEFORE" doesn't appear.
> 
> What's wrong? How to make it appear?

Move \definelayer and \setupbackgrounds *before* \startTEXpage because the environment creates a local group and you background setup is lost.

Wolfgang
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  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-12 18:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-11 15:32 Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o.
2013-01-11 18:06 ` Hans Hagen
2013-01-12  7:44 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2013-01-12 10:36   ` Procházka Lukáš
2013-01-12 13:25   ` Hans Hagen
2013-01-12 17:54   ` [***Spam/VIR***] " Procházka Lukáš
2013-01-12 18:11     ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2013-01-15  8:04       ` Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o.
2013-01-15 10:09         ` Wolfgang Schuster
2013-01-15 12:10           ` [***Spam/VIR***] " Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o.
2013-01-15 12:25             ` Aditya Mahajan
2013-01-15 16:21               ` Philipp Gesang
2013-01-16  8:41               ` Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o.
2013-01-16 11:47                 ` Philipp Gesang
2013-01-16 13:09                   ` Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o.
2013-01-16 13:34                     ` Philipp Gesang

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