From: "Paul Jones" <shagreel@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: xpos.sty
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 20:44:29 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f35545860609011944h5ddbc0fet9afb926945cd827c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44F4CE93.8020001@wxs.nl>
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Again, that is exactly what we needed. Thank you so much.
paul
On 8/29/06, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
>
> Paul Jones wrote:
> >
> > Thank you again for very timely and great answers to my question
> > yesterday. I am finding that implementing things in Context is
> > usually easier than I expect. This is very nice. Our company decided
> > to switch to context from latex recently. It seems to have been a
> > very good decision. Thanks for all the work you do to make context so
> > fun to use.
> >
> > We have one last thing to get translated from latex to context. David
> > Kastrup wrote a bit of latex for us (included below) that magically
> > writes out the absolute xy position of each paragraph and image to a
> > log file for us. We pass some extra information to the commands that
> > get put in the log file for us, but in the end we mainly need a way to
> > get the absolute xy coordinates of the bounding boxes for each
> > paragraph, each section title, each image and each image caption. Is
> > there a way to get this information with context already? Or do I need
> > to get a new module written?
> i dunno about that code but context has support for positions for years
> now, in your case you probably need something
>
> \starttext
>
> \let\CurrentPos\empty
>
> \def\StartPos#1%
> {\pushmacro\CurrentPos
> \edef\CurrentPos{mypos:#1}%
> \dontleavehmode\bpos\CurrentPos
> \ignorespaces}
>
> \def\StopPos
> {\removeunwantedspaces
> \epos\CurrentPos
> \popmacro\CurrentPos}
>
> \def\BoxPos#1%
> {\dowithnextbox{\hbox{\hpos{mypos:#1}{\box\nextbox}}}\vbox}
>
> \StartPos{x}\input tufte \StopPos
>
> \StartPos{y}\input zapf \StopPos
>
> \placefigure
> {}
> {\BoxPos{q}{\framed[width=3cm,height=4cm]{}}}
>
> \stoptext
>
> in the *.tui/tuo file you can grep for mypos
>
>
>
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2006-08-29 15:23 xpos.sty Paul Jones
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