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Subject: Re: address/text boxes
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At 10:09 PM 7/22/2002 +0200, wybo dekker wrote:
>On Fri July 19 2002 22:20, Hans Hagen wrote:
>
>(about address fields for window envelopes)
>
> > If you have a recent version:
> >
> > \definelayer
> >    [window]
> >    [width=\textwidth,height=\textheight]
> >
> > \setlayerframed
> >    [window]
> >    [x=2cm,y=3cm]
> >    [width=10cm,height=4cm]
> >    {Name\\Adress\\City}
> >
> > \flushlayer[window]
>
>  I tried this without success in the following:
>
>\setupoutput[pdftex]
>\setuppapersize[A4][A4]
>\setuppagenumbering[state=stop]
>
>\def\address#1{
>   \definelayer
>      [window]
>      [width=\textwidth,height=\textheight]
>   \setlayerframed
>      [window]
>      [x=12cm,y=3cm]
>      [align=right,frame=off,width=10cm,height=4cm]
>      {#1}
>   \flushlayer[window]
>}
>
>\starttext
>\address{name\\street\\city}
>\stoptext
>
>As a result, the distance to the left adge of the paper is not 12cm,
>but 28mm more, and the distance from the top edge is not 3cm, but 65mm
>more.
>
>Is there a way to do *absolute* positioning of material on the page?

sure, put it in the page background:

instead of

   \flushlayer[window]

say

   \setupbackgrounds[page][background=window]

Hans
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