From: Willi Egger <w.egger@boede.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Fw: A question about layers
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 23:15:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <B14B329E-0D3D-4B8C-B2D1-CDFC8A974EE1@boede.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110716193544.3a14a381@marcin-desktop>
Hi,
the easiest way to get info is to read details.pdf and the new metafun-manual.
Willi
On 16 Jul 2011, at 19:35, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
> Anybody help, please...?
>
> Dnia 2011-07-14, o godz. 23:37:29
> Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl> napisał(a):
>
>> I think that the general problem is that I have a wrong conceptual
>> model of layers in ConTeXt. You know, when I hear the word "layer",
>> I have some ideas about how it should/could/might work, and probably
>> these ideas are different than Hans'. So I'm going to briefly
>> describe my idea (already modified by the answers) and please tell me
>> what's wrong with it.
>>
>> So I imagine that \definelayer / \setuplayer defines a rectangular
>> shape on the page, possibly framed/colored/etc., which is going to
>> appear on all pages (default) or on selected ones. The contents of
>> layers are set with \setlayer, (with some - mysterious for me -
>> "setups" trickery if they are going to change from page to page), and
>> they are actually put on the page by \setupbackgrounds. (And I have
>> no idea what \flushlayer does in this conceptual framework.) So
>> layers are actually kind of "beneath" ordinary page contents.
>>
>> Some of these commands (which ones?) should moreover be placed before
>> \startext.
>>
>> OK, so where am I right and where am I wrong now?
>
> Best
>
> --
> Marcin Borkowski
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-14 21:37 Marcin Borkowski
2011-07-16 17:35 ` Marcin Borkowski
2011-07-16 21:15 ` Willi Egger [this message]
2011-07-17 8:02 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2011-07-17 17:07 ` Willi Egger
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2011-07-14 21:36 Marcin Borkowski
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