From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Equivalent in ConTeXt mkiv for LaTeX's picture environment?
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2016 21:59:56 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.OSX.2.02.1606252158470.98399@nqv-znpobbx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <576ECDFF.9030001@fehige.de>
On Sat, 25 Jun 2016, Thomas Fehige wrote:
> The headline says it: As a convert from LaTeX I'm looking for the
> functionality of LaTeX's picture environment, i.e. the placing of boxes
> et al. according to absolute coordinates, possibly with calculating
> measurements and coordinates on the go, like the stuff provided by the
> picture package on LaTeX. (It's labels for cider bottles this time.)
Depends on the specifics. If you just want to place labels, then use
layers. If you want labels + measuring stuff + drawing lines etc., then
use a combination of layers and metapost.
Aditya
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-26 1:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-25 18:31 Thomas Fehige
2016-06-26 1:06 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2016-06-26 1:59 ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2016-06-26 23:16 ` Wolfgang Schuster
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