Re: [NTG-context] Placing boxes anywhere on the page

16 Nov 2010

      On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Peter Münster  wrote:
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On Tue, Nov 16 2010, Peter Davis wrote:
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Is there a way to place a box at some specified x and y position on the
page, and then typeset one or more paragraphs of text into the box?  I
guess
I'm thinking of something like LaTeX's minipage, but with the ability to
specify absolute coordinates, rather than just position relative to the
current baseline.
Layers or overlays are certainly the right method. But there is also the
\position macro:
Thanks!  I didn't find much in the ConTeXt reference manual on this.  Is
there more info somewhere?

Thank you.

-pd