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From: Curiouslearn <curiouslearn@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Layers for absolute positioning
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 16:35:24 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTikLj-PsBdnHt6bMVXAW9fss6XzhFfcr9B3Yx0z4@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <72080E76-826D-4F39-BB2C-1983EF043914@gmail.com>

Thanks, Wolfgang!  That works great.

Another related question...can I add a different background color to
the layer (a color different than rest of the page).

Thanks.

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 3:34 PM, Wolfgang Schuster
<schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> Am 07.03.2011 um 20:51 schrieb Curiouslearn:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have been trying to learn the best way to position text on a page.
>> From the messages it appears that a good way to do so, is to use
>> layers. But it seems that to activate them I need to set them as
>> background of the page. However, that removes the background color.
>> How can I get both layers and a background color?
>
> \setupbackgrounds[page][background={color,windows}]
>
> Wolfgang
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-07 19:51 Curiouslearn
2011-03-07 20:34 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2011-03-07 21:35   ` Curiouslearn [this message]

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