From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Equivalent in ConTeXt mkiv for LaTeX's picture environment?
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 01:16:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <57706253.6040800@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <576ECDFF.9030001@fehige.de>
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> Thomas Fehige <mailto:thomas@fehige.de>
> 25. Juni 2016 um 20:31
> The headline says it: As a convert from LaTeX I'm looking for the
> functionality of LaTeX's picture environment, i.e. the placing of
> boxes et al. according to absolute coordinates, possibly with
> calculating measurements and coordinates on the go, like the stuff
> provided by the picture package on LaTeX. (It's labels for cider
> bottles this time.)
A third method apart from layers and metapost is the positioning
environment.
\setupexternalfigure[location=default]
\starttext
\startpositioning
\position(0,0){\externalfigure[cow][width=\textwidth]}
\position(1.5,2){\color[green]{HEAD}}
\position(10,6.5){\color[red]{UDDER}}
\stoppositioning
\stoptext
Wolfgang
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-25 18:31 Thomas Fehige
2016-06-26 1:06 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2016-06-26 1:59 ` Aditya Mahajan
2016-06-26 23:16 ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
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