From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Subject: Re: xpos.sty
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 01:32:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44F4CE93.8020001@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f35545860608290823w52a2d39bqb438a6eb60c5430a@mail.gmail.com>
Paul Jones wrote:
>
> Thank you again for very timely and great answers to my question
> yesterday. I am finding that implementing things in Context is
> usually easier than I expect. This is very nice. Our company decided
> to switch to context from latex recently. It seems to have been a
> very good decision. Thanks for all the work you do to make context so
> fun to use.
>
> We have one last thing to get translated from latex to context. David
> Kastrup wrote a bit of latex for us (included below) that magically
> writes out the absolute xy position of each paragraph and image to a
> log file for us. We pass some extra information to the commands that
> get put in the log file for us, but in the end we mainly need a way to
> get the absolute xy coordinates of the bounding boxes for each
> paragraph, each section title, each image and each image caption. Is
> there a way to get this information with context already? Or do I need
> to get a new module written?
i dunno about that code but context has support for positions for years now, in your case you probably need something
\starttext
\let\CurrentPos\empty
\def\StartPos#1%
{\pushmacro\CurrentPos
\edef\CurrentPos{mypos:#1}%
\dontleavehmode\bpos\CurrentPos
\ignorespaces}
\def\StopPos
{\removeunwantedspaces
\epos\CurrentPos
\popmacro\CurrentPos}
\def\BoxPos#1%
{\dowithnextbox{\hbox{\hpos{mypos:#1}{\box\nextbox}}}\vbox}
\StartPos{x}\input tufte \StopPos
\StartPos{y}\input zapf \StopPos
\placefigure
{}
{\BoxPos{q}{\framed[width=3cm,height=4cm]{}}}
\stoptext
in the *.tui/tuo file you can grep for mypos
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2006-08-29 15:23 xpos.sty Paul Jones
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