From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/11636 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re[3]: Backgrounds Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 13:25:28 +0100 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20030325131938.01d9af40@server-1> References: <5.1.0.14.1.20030325094633.031a8c80@server-1> <5.1.0.14.1.20030325094633.031a8c80@server-1> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1048595476 19776 80.91.224.249 (25 Mar 2003 12:31:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 12:31:16 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Tue Mar 25 13:31:14 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18xnaD-00058h-00 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 13:31:13 +0100 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B76E510B57; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 13:31:08 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from mail.solcon.nl (mail.solcon.nl [212.45.33.11]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 529A410B1B for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 13:28:11 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from server-1.pragma-net.nl (wc-58016.solcon.nl [212.45.58.16]) by mail.solcon.nl (8.12.5/pre1.0-MySQL/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h2PCRvf5012171 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 13:27:58 +0100 Original-Received: from LAPTOP-3.wxs.nl (laptop-3 [10.100.1.191]) by server-1.pragma-net.nl (8.12.3/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h2PCSAEY016522 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 13:28:10 +0100 X-Sender: hagen-mail@server-1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl In-Reply-To: <1205637386.20030325114358@iol.it> X-RAVMilter-Version: 8.4.1(snapshot 20020919) (mail.solcon.nl) Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:11636 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:11636 At 11:43 AM 3/25/2003 +0100, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: >Ok, I start to see the picture: one must use MetaPost. I can >accept that :) (even if it's somewhat clumsier, but this is no >problem, one can write interfaces for that). actually, it's handier once you get going; otherwise you would be limited to simple frames and backgrounds, simply because we would run out of keywords for options and/or forget to documen them; i expect to provide a library of backgrounds in due time >The problem is still that I cannot separate the behaviour at the >end of the background from the behaviour at a split. What I'm >looking for is something like this: guess what, this time your demands for features are fulfilled on forehand! there is an array available multilocs[...] 1 = top 2 = mid 3 = bottom shape; this is how i could handle the example in details with different shades per kind of frame >Can the first effect be achieved? as said, Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------