On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 3:07 AM, Uwe Koloska
Hello,
hopefully this is the last dumb question, cause the CD is nearing it's end an will be prepared for printing soon ;-)
How can I float text around a picture if I place them on a layer?
What I want to achieve is something like this:
ppp........ ppp........ ...........
but typeset onto a layer to position it at my will ...
Not possible with a layer.
But I can't get the text flow around the graphic. Here is a minimal example: ------------------------------------------------------------- \definelayer[test]
\startbuffer[text] \placefigure[left,none]{}{\framed[height=1cm]{graphic}} \input tufte \stopbuffer
\setlayerframed[test] [x=.5\paperwidth,y=2em,location=bottom] [width=0.8\textwidth,height=0.3\textheight,align=normal] {\getbuffer[text]}
\setupbackgrounds[page][background=test]
\starttext \startstandardmakeup \stopstandardmakeup \stoptext -------------------------------------------------------------
and the result can be seen in the attached PDF.
The same happens inside a standardmakeup ------------------------------------------------------------- \startbuffer[text] \placefigure[left,none]{}{\framed[height=1cm]{graphic}} \input tufte \stopbuffer
\starttext \startstandardmakeup \getbuffer[text] \stopstandardmakeup \stoptext -------------------------------------------------------------
and inside a framedtext ------------------------------------------------------------- \startbuffer[text] \placefigure[left,none]{}{\framed[height=1cm]{graphic}} \input tufte \stopbuffer
\starttext \startframedtext[width=0.8\textwidth] \getbuffer[text] \stopframedtext \stoptext -------------------------------------------------------------
Neither the mailinglist, nor the wiki or the documentation have given me any clue, what to change or where to look further ...
standardmakeup and framedtext use a \vbox and floating text around a image did not work in restricted vertical mode unless you use ConTeXt's stream mechanism, you can find examples in m-streams or in the list archive.
Is there another way to flow text around an image? The image has a fixed position (top left corner of the text) so it don't has to be a float at all.
Do you really need standardmakeup or why do you use it. A alternative for framedtext is textbackground, it is also the better solution in grid mode. \definetextbackground [cover] [frame=on, location=paragraph, background=, leftoffset=.25ex, rightoffset=.25ex, topoffset=.25ex, bottomoffset=.25ex] \starttext \starttextbackground[cover] \getbuffer[text] \stoptextbackground \stoptext Regards Wolfgang