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From: Willi Egger <w.egger@boede.nl>
Subject: Re: irregular typesetting area
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 12:20:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40052618.5030305@boede.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OFEF02E2B0.13009E8B-ONC1256E1B.00396516@vit.de>

Hi Ole,

It is just a suggestion. May be that the required information can be 
found in the metafun manual. From page 226 (Talking to TeX) there is a 
lot on typesetting text within a given shape.  Examples are given on 
page 238.

Kind regards Willi
Ole Schoening wrote:

>Dear Contexers,
>
>I would like to repeat my question (see below) because I neither got
>an answer nor found a solution on my own. I believe that
>\defineoverlay cannot produce a solution for my problem because this
>command puts pictures in a different layer and so the main text is
>not affected (i.e. text is printed on top of underlying pictures).
>
>Are there any hints available?
>Ole
>
>
>
>I'm trying to produce an irregular (more than 4 corners) typesetting
>(main text) area of the following shape:
>
>... (header) ....
>                         _____________________________________
>( logo /                | ... text area ...                  |
>  overlay background)   |                                    |
>________________________|                                    |
>|                                                            |
>...                                                        ...
>|                                                            |
>|                                                            |
>|                                    ________________________|
>|                                   |(logo
>|                                   |    /overlay background)
>|         ... text area ...         |
>|___________________________________|
>
>The reason of this wish is not to overwrite the displayed logos
>or overlay pictures, which are used to form a common layout for a
>brochure.
>Btw., the orientation of the logos / pictures changes from even to
>odd pages.
>The measures of the logos / pictures prohibit a solution just by
>putting
>them in the header or footer.
>
>Does anyone have an idea how to solve this problem?
>Thanks in advance,
>Ole
>
>
>
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-01-14 11:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-14 11:00 Ole Schoening
2004-01-14 11:11 ` Janko Hauser
2004-01-14 11:20 ` Willi Egger [this message]
2004-01-14 14:26 ` Janko Hauser

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