Re: Placing boxes anywhere on the page

[Peter Davis <pfd@pfdstudio.com>]

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On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Peter Münster <pmlists@free.fr> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 16 2010, Peter Davis wrote:
>
> > Is there a way to place a box at some specified x and y position on the
> > page, and then typeset one or more paragraphs of text into the box?  I
> guess
> > I'm thinking of something like LaTeX's minipage, but with the ability to
> > specify absolute coordinates, rather than just position relative to the
> > current baseline.
>
> Layers or overlays are certainly the right method. But there is also the
> \position macro:
>

Thanks!  I didn't find much in the ConTeXt reference manual on this.  Is
there more info somewhere?

Thank you.

-pd

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