From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: how to make a coverpage?
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 08:44:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <A7C03CB8-63B6-4616-9AEA-CDF0F092FD48@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <440786.17801.qm@web30005.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Am 08.04.2009 um 01:10 schrieb Jos van Gisbergen:
> Hi,
>
> I'm experimenting with context for a few weeks now and am impressed
> by its possibilities and clean results. However, everything I want
> to try
> out seems to take a lot of trial and error to get right.
> Especially creating a titlepage for a book, a backgound picture
> covering
> the entire page with some text on it -- I cannot for the life of me
> figure
> out how it's done. Even after googling many hours and perusing the
> manuals. I've tried permutations of layers, overlays and
> setupbackgrounds
> within and without {start/stop}standardmakeup -- nothing quite does
> it.
> Can somebody please show me a simple example of how to create
> a book cover with a picture covering the entire page and a title
> text on it?
\starttext
\defineoverlay[coverimage][\ifnum\realpageno=\plusone
\overlayfigure{cover}\fi]
\setupbackgrounds[page][background=coverimage]
\startstandardmakeup
bla bla bla
\stopstandardmakeup
\input knuth
\stoptext
or
\starttext
\defineoverlay[coverimage][\ifnum\realpageno=\plusone
\overlayfigure{cover}\fi]
\definelayer[covertext][width=\paperwidth,height=\paperheight]
\setupbackgrounds[page][background={coverimage,covertext}]
\startstandardmakeup
\setlayer[covertext][x=3cm,y=6cm]{bla bla bla}
\stopstandardmakeup
\input knuth
\stoptext
Wolfgang
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