From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/20372 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Idris Samawi Hamid Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: centering framed boxes Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 20:39:18 -0600 Message-ID: <42DF4ABB@webmail.colostate.edu> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1116126909 18464 80.91.229.2 (15 May 2005 03:15:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 03:15:09 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun May 15 05:15:07 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DX9ad-0005jn-BN for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 May 2005 05:14:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0D1012778; Sun, 15 May 2005 05:15:02 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 19137-03; Sun, 15 May 2005 05:15:02 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CCAF127C8; Sun, 15 May 2005 04:39:22 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACD69127C8 for ; Sun, 15 May 2005 04:39:20 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 08033-01-3 for ; Sun, 15 May 2005 04:39:19 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from eagle.colostate.edu (eagle.acns.colostate.edu [129.82.100.90]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49F35127C5 for ; Sun, 15 May 2005 04:39:19 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lamar.colostate.edu (lamar.acns.colostate.edu [129.82.100.75]) by eagle.colostate.edu (AIX5.1/8.11.6p2/8.11.0) with ESMTP id j4F2dIS1100382 for ; Sat, 14 May 2005 20:39:18 -0600 Original-Received: from webmail.colostate.edu (csunts4.acns.colostate.edu [129.82.100.135]) by lamar.colostate.edu (AIX5.1/8.11.6p2/8.11.0) with ESMTP id j4F2cLH451964 for ; Sat, 14 May 2005 20:38:21 -0600 X-WebMail-UserID: ishamid Original-To: X-EXP32-SerialNo: 00002247, 00002264 X-Mailer: Infinite Mobile Delivery (Hydra) SMTP v3.62.01 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on smtp.ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:20372 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:20372 Dear gang, I need a way to overlay four framed boxes so that each inner box is exactly in the center of its respective outer box. So far I have the following, but careful inspection will show that the boxes are not precisely centered with respect to each other. I could go on by trial and error but I'm sure there is a direct way to do this. The text should also be precisely centered between frames. Thank you in advance! Idris ========================================================= \setupoutput[pdftex]% \setuppagenumbering[state=stop] \starttext \setupfloats[location=middle] \placefigure [here][tab:enclosure]{4 Stages.} { \midaligned{ \framed [width=12\baselineskip,height=12\baselineskip,strut=yes] {\midaligned{Stage 1} \midaligned% {\framed[width=9\baselineskip,height=9\baselineskip,strut=yes] {\midaligned{Stage 2} \midaligned% {\framed[width=6\baselineskip,height=6\baselineskip,strut=yes] {\midaligned{Stage 3} \midaligned% {\framed[width=3\baselineskip,height=3\baselineskip,strut=yes] {\midaligned{Stage 4}} } \midaligned{\null}}% } \midaligned{\null}}% } \midaligned{\null}} } } \stoptext ========================================================= ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523