Re: address/text boxes

[Wybo Dekker <wybo@servalys.nl>]

On Fri July 19 2002 22:20, Hans Hagen wrote:

(about address fields for window envelopes)

> If you have a recent version:
>
> \definelayer
>    [window]
>    [width=\textwidth,height=\textheight]
>
> \setlayerframed
>    [window]
>    [x=2cm,y=3cm]
>    [width=10cm,height=3cm]
>    {Name\\Adress\\City}
>
> \flushlayer[window]

I tried this without success in the following:

\setupoutput[pdftex]
\setuppapersize[A4][A4]
\setuppagenumbering[state=stop]

\def\address#1{
  \definelayer
     [window]
     [width=\textwidth,height=\textheight]
  \setlayerframed
     [window]
     [x=12cm,y=3cm]
     [align=right,frame=off,width=10cm,height=4cm]
     {#1}
  \flushlayer[window]
}

\starttext
\address{name\\street\\city}
\stoptext

As a result, the distance to the left adge of the paper is not 12cm,
but 28mm more, and the distance from the top edge is not 3cm, but 65mm
more.

Is there a way to do *absolute* positioning of material on the page?

-- 
Wybo