From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/63562 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Placing boxes anywhere on the page Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 01:07:39 +0100 Message-ID: <4CE31CCB.80707@wxs.nl> References: <20101116204116.GA15796@micropit.couberia.bzh> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1289952518 17173 80.91.229.12 (17 Nov 2010 00:08:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:08:38 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Nov 17 01:08:34 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PIVZg-00020G-R9 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 01:08:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBEB7CA863; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 01:08:31 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id Is+0Bf9r9DuO; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 01:08:28 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8945CA85A; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 01:08:27 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AECBCA85A for ; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 01:08:26 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 6mX+hQlfiUbp for ; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 01:08:15 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from filter3-til.mf.surf.net (filter3-til.mf.surf.net [194.171.167.219]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22289CA855 for ; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 01:08:15 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp.ziggozakelijk.nl (D57D1DA2.static.ziggozakelijk.nl [213.125.29.162]) by filter3-til.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5+lenny1) with ESMTP id oAH08CuO031870 for ; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 01:08:13 +0100 X-Default-Received-SPF: pass (skip=loggedin (res=PASS)) x-ip-name=10.100.1.101; Original-Received: from [10.100.1.101] (unverified [10.100.1.101]) by pragma-net.nl (SurgeMail 4.3g4) with ESMTP id 14690-1713362 for ; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 01:04:24 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.6 ThunderBrowse/3.3.2 In-Reply-To: <20101116204116.GA15796@micropit.couberia.bzh> X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-9 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=213.125.29.162; country=NL; region=11; city=Den Haag; latitude=52.0833; longitude=4.3000; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.0833,4.3000&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0eDw08cw1 - fdb37424ce51 - 20101117 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 194.171.167.219 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:63562 Archived-At: On 16-11-2010 9:41, Peter M=FCnster wrote: > On Tue, Nov 16 2010, Peter Davis wrote: > >> Is there a way to place a box at some specified x and y position on the >> page, and then typeset one or more paragraphs of text into the box? I g= uess >> I'm thinking of something like LaTeX's minipage, but with the ability to >> specify absolute coordinates, rather than just position relative to the >> current baseline. > > Layers or overlays are certainly the right method. But there is also the > \position macro: > > \setupframed[foregroundstyle=3D\bfc] > \setuppositioning[state=3Doverlay, unit=3Dcm, xoffset=3D0.5\textwidth, > yoffset=3D0.5\textheight] > \starttext > \startpositioning > \position(0,0){\framed{0,0}} > \position(-5,-5){\framed{-5,-5}} > \position(-5,5){\framed{-5,5}} > \position(5,-5){\framed{5,-5}} > \position(5,5){\framed{5,5}} > \stoppositioning > \input tufte > \input tufte > \input tufte > \input tufte > \input tufte > \stoptext So that is still used? (If so, I should look into optimizing and cleanup = as it's real old code). ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________= ________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to t= he Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-cont= ext webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________= ________