simple graphics, Metafun vs. ConTeXt

simple graphics, Metafun vs. ConTeXt

[S Barmeier]

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I have leaved through the ConTeXt and MetaFun manuals on the search for
examples of graphics resembling the attached file which I created in TikZ.

I was wanting to switch to something more native to ConTeXt, but haven't
quite found a way of realising it in ConTeXt or MetaFun.

Maybe someone would be so kind as to point me to the right section in
the manual.

All I want is to define text boxes (of a fixed size) to fill them with a
background colour and (centred, typeset) text. Do I need MetaFun for
that, or should some table/framed text environment in ConTeXt be able to
do that?

Many thanks,
Severin

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Re: simple graphics, Metafun vs. ConTeXt

[Wolfgang Schuster]

Am 22.03.2012 um 15:09 schrieb S Barmeier:

> I have leaved through the ConTeXt and MetaFun manuals on the search for
> examples of graphics resembling the attached file which I created in TikZ.
> 
> I was wanting to switch to something more native to ConTeXt, but haven't
> quite found a way of realising it in ConTeXt or MetaFun.
> 
> Maybe someone would be so kind as to point me to the right section in
> the manual.
> 
> All I want is to define text boxes (of a fixed size) to fill them with a
> background colour and (centred, typeset) text. Do I need MetaFun for
> that, or should some table/framed text environment in ConTeXt be able to
> do that?

You can use a table as seen in the example below but when you have many
graphics in this form I would use layers and write a few commands to fill
all fields with the information.

\startsetups kanji

  \setupTABLE      [frame=off]
  \setupTABLE[1][1][background=color,backgroundcolor=red,width=4cm,align={middle,lohi}]
  \setupTABLE[2][1][background=color,backgroundcolor=orange,width=6cm]
  \setupTABLE[1][2][background=color,backgroundcolor=yellow]

\stopsetups

\starttext

\bTABLE[setups=kanji]
  \bTR
    \bTD A \eTD
    \bTD
      line 1\\
      line 2\\
      line 3
    \eTD
  \eTR
  \bTR
    \bTD[nx=2]
      line 1\\
      line 2\\
      line 3
    \eTD
  \eTR
\eTABLE

\stoptext

Wolfgang
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Re: simple graphics, Metafun vs. ConTeXt

[Hans Hagen]

On 22-3-2012 15:09, S Barmeier wrote:
> I have leaved through the ConTeXt and MetaFun manuals on the search for
> examples of graphics resembling the attached file which I created in TikZ.
>
> I was wanting to switch to something more native to ConTeXt, but haven't
> quite found a way of realising it in ConTeXt or MetaFun.
>
> Maybe someone would be so kind as to point me to the right section in
> the manual.
>
> All I want is to define text boxes (of a fixed size) to fill them with a
> background colour and (centred, typeset) text. Do I need MetaFun for
> that, or should some table/framed text environment in ConTeXt be able to
> do that?

this can be done with \bTABLE .. \eTABLE


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Re: simple graphics, Metafun vs. ConTeXt

[S Barmeier]

On 03/23/2012 03:11 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 22-3-2012 15:09, S Barmeier wrote:
>> I have leaved through the ConTeXt and MetaFun manuals on the search for
>> examples of graphics resembling the attached file which I created in
>> TikZ.
>>
>> I was wanting to switch to something more native to ConTeXt, but haven't
>> quite found a way of realising it in ConTeXt or MetaFun.
>>
>> Maybe someone would be so kind as to point me to the right section in
>> the manual.
>>
>> All I want is to define text boxes (of a fixed size) to fill them with a
>> background colour and (centred, typeset) text. Do I need MetaFun for
>> that, or should some table/framed text environment in ConTeXt be able to
>> do that?
> 
> this can be done with \bTABLE .. \eTABLE

This works as expected, thank you Wolfgang and Hans. I am putting these
tables in the margin, though, and neither stack=yes nor stack=continue
prevent two of them from overlapping. Is there some casing for the table
so that they won't overlap? Also, rather than the top, the bottom of the
table is aligned with the line containing the \inmargin command... but
maybe this will be fixed by a solution to the overlapping?

Severin
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Re: simple graphics, Metafun vs. ConTeXt

[Wolfgang Schuster]

Am 25.03.2012 um 04:41 schrieb S Barmeier:

> On 03/23/2012 03:11 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:
>> On 22-3-2012 15:09, S Barmeier wrote:
>>> I have leaved through the ConTeXt and MetaFun manuals on the search for
>>> examples of graphics resembling the attached file which I created in
>>> TikZ.
>>> 
>>> I was wanting to switch to something more native to ConTeXt, but haven't
>>> quite found a way of realising it in ConTeXt or MetaFun.
>>> 
>>> Maybe someone would be so kind as to point me to the right section in
>>> the manual.
>>> 
>>> All I want is to define text boxes (of a fixed size) to fill them with a
>>> background colour and (centred, typeset) text. Do I need MetaFun for
>>> that, or should some table/framed text environment in ConTeXt be able to
>>> do that?
>> 
>> this can be done with \bTABLE .. \eTABLE
> 
> This works as expected, thank you Wolfgang and Hans. I am putting these
> tables in the margin, though, and neither stack=yes nor stack=continue
> prevent two of them from overlapping. Is there some casing for the table
> so that they won't overlap? Also, rather than the top, the bottom of the
> table is aligned with the line containing the \inmargin command... but
> maybe this will be fixed by a solution to the overlapping?


You can fix the alignment of the table with the \toplinebox command.

\starttext

\dorecurse{4}
  {\inmargin[stack=continue]{\toplinebox{\bTABLE[height=12mm,width=10mm]\bTR\bTD 1\eTD\bTD 2\eTD\eTR\bTR\bTD 3\eTD\bTD 4\eTD\eTR\eTABLE}}
   \input ward\par}

\stoptext

Wolfgang
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