Re: layer documentation?

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 13:32 13/04/2003 +0200, Patrick Gundlach wrote:
>Hello Hans and others,
>
>is there any layer documentation out there that I have missed?
>
>I found some fragments in the metafun manual, the details.pdf and
>(well, of course!) the source.
>
>Where should the layers be hooked in?
>
>If I say \setupbackgrounds[text][text][background=relpos], the layer
>relpos gets repeated; if I use \setupbackgrounds[page][..], the layer
>won't be repeated, even if I say
>\setupbackgrounds[page][background=..,state=repeat]. (Yes, I know
>that I can use \setuplayer[...][state=repeat]; I try to understand
>what is going on.)
>
>So should I always use the [page] background to anchor the layer?

   [text][text] and [page] are repeated indeed

others are if \setupbackgrounds[state=repeat]

another option is:

   \checktextbackgrounds

and put things in the predefined text-2,text-2,text+1,text+2 layers

(studying core-box may shed some light on this)

Hans



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