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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: wrong positioning of MP graphic in layer
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2013 22:48:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52531E1E.2090107@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <525313D0.1040601@gmx.es>

On 10/7/2013 10:04 PM, Pablo Rodríguez wrote:
> On 10/07/2013 07:16 PM, luigi scarso wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 5:56 PM, Pablo Rodríguez wrote:
>>   Dear list,
>>
>>   I have the following sample:
>>   [...]
>
> Many thanks for your reply, Luigi.
>
> I need to insist on this sample, because the layer doesn’t behave as such:
>
> \definelayer[wrongpositioned][x=5000cm, y=5000cm, state=start]
> \setuplayer[wrongpositioned]{\startMPcode draw
> (0mm,0mm)--(8mm,0mm)--(8mm,38mm)--(14mm,38mm) ; \stopMPcode}
> \setupbackgrounds[page][background={wrongpositioned}]
> \starttext
> \input knuth
> \stoptext
>
> x and y are outside the page in the layer definition (50 meters).
>
> It should be a stupid error, but I cannot say which one.
>
> It is a line that I need for my work.
>
>>   Could anyone be so kind to explain me what location and corner mean in
>>   layers?
>>
>> You can start from here
>> [...]
>
> Many thanks for this excellent example. Playing with it is the best way
> to learn.

you confuse \setuplayer with setlayer

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-07 20:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-07 15:56 Pablo Rodríguez
2013-10-07 17:16 ` luigi scarso
2013-10-07 20:04   ` Pablo Rodríguez
2013-10-07 20:48     ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2013-10-08 15:21       ` Pablo Rodríguez
2013-10-07 21:01     ` luigi scarso
2013-10-08 15:29       ` Pablo Rodríguez

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