From: Keith McKay via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Cc: Keith McKay <mckaymeister@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Absolute positioning of \startcombination... \stopcombination
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2023 12:11:15 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8e146911-4298-db85-df39-0a5c111a37a4@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6e6abe70-8d1a-1b3a-b561-c148f92ff373@gmx.es>
Thanks for your reply Pablo. I didn't see it till just now because for
some reason it ended up in my junk folder, along with a number of other
ConTeXt messages. You will probably have seen my reply to the list with
the three solutions, now we have four!
Yep, I know that A4 is the default page size and I always start with
that but sometimes I play about with page sizes when typesetting and so
can just change when coding.
In the document I'm working on, some pages will only contain images
and/or combination of images so I went down the Layers route since this
also allows me to absolutely position these images on the page.
Thanks again for your help!
Best Wishes
Keith McKay
On 16/03/2023 17:58, Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context wrote:
> On 3/16/23 17:59, Keith McKay via ntg-context wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would like to position a combination of images where the centre of the
>> combination coincides with the centre of the text area of a page.
> Hi Keith,
>
> I think the following sample might achieve what you want:
>
> \showframe
> \setupexternalfigures[location={default}]
> \setuplayout
> [backspace=2.5cm,
> topspace=1cm,
> height=28cm,
> width=17cm,
> header=0cm,
> footer=0.75cm,
> ]
> \definelayer[test3]
> %[x=.5\paperwidth, y=.5\paperheight]
> [x=.5\textwidth, y=.5\textheight]
> %\setupbackgrounds[page]
> \setupbackgrounds[text]
> [background=test3]
> \starttext
> \setlayer[test3][location={middle}]
> \framed[offset=overlay]{{\startcombination[nx=3,ny=1,distance=15mm]
> {\externalfigure[cow][width=15mm]}{}
> \rotate[rotation=90]{\externalfigure[cow][width=15mm]}{}
> {\externalfigure[cow][width=15mm]}{}
> \stopcombination}}
> \null
> \stoptext
>
> BTW, A4 portrait is the default page size.
>
> \setupbackgrounds is the standard way to place layers.
>
> Page and text centering would require different positions (I have
> commented out the option for page centering).
>
> I hope it helps (since I’m not sure I’m getting your point here),
>
> Pablo
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-16 16:59 Keith McKay via ntg-context
2023-03-16 17:27 ` Wolfgang Schuster via ntg-context
2023-03-16 18:07 ` Alan Braslau via ntg-context
2023-03-16 19:50 ` Keith McKay via ntg-context
2023-03-17 11:13 ` Keith McKay via ntg-context
2023-03-16 17:58 ` Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context
2023-03-17 12:11 ` Keith McKay via ntg-context [this message]
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