Re: Absolute position in table cell

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

On 2/15/2016 11:10 AM, Volker Mische wrote:
> On 02/15/2016 10:58 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:
>> On 2/15/2016 10:32 AM, Volker Mische wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I'd like to position some text in a corner of a natural table cell. I
>>> got as far as being able to put the same text on every cell (a "p" in
>>> the example). Now my problem is, how do I specify the contents of the
>>> overlay/layer on a per cell basis?
>>>
>>> Best for me would be if I could define the text directly within the
>>> cell. I'm surely open to a completely different solution that has the
>>> same outcome.
>>>
>>> Here's the minimal example of what I currently have.
>>>
>>> \starttext
>>>
>>> \definelayer  [pagenumber][width=\overlaywidth,height=\overlayheight]
>>> \defineoverlay[pagenumber][{\directsetup{pagenumber}\tightlayer[pagenumber]}]
>>>
>>>
>>> \startsetups pagenumber
>>>     \setlayerframed
>>>       [pagenumber]
>>>       [preset=rightbottom]
>>>       {p}
>>> \stopsetups
>>>
>>> \bTABLE
>>>     \setupTABLE[each][each][background=pagenumber]
>>>     \bTR
>>>       \bTD multiline \par text \eTD
>>>       \bTD some cell \par with even \par more \par text \eTD
>>>     \eTR
>>> \eTABLE
>>>
>>> \stoptext
>>
>> \bTABLE
>>    \bTR
>>      \bTD multiline \par text \eTD
>>      \bTD[background=pagenumber] some cell \par with even \par more \par
>> text \eTD
>>    \eTR
>> \eTABLE
>
>
> I wasn't clear enough. I still want to have `pagenumber` on every cell,
> but I'd like to be able to define its contents within the cell (instead
> of having something like "p" hard-coded).
>
> So I'm looking for something like
>
>      \bTD multiline \par text \setlayercontents[pagenumber]{newval}\eTD
>      \bTD some cell \par with even \par more \par text
> \setlayercontents[pagenumber]{differentval}\eTD
\startsetups pagenumber
    \setlayerframed
      [pagenumber]
      [preset=rightbottom]
      {\getvariable{table}{p}}
\stopsetups

\bTABLE
    \setupTABLE[each][each][background=pagenumber]
    \bTR
      \bTD \setgvariable{table}{p}{b} multiline \par text \eTD
      \bTD \setgvariable{table}{p}{p} some cell \par with even \par more 
\par text \eTD
    \eTR
\eTABLE


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