Thanks for your reply Pablo. I didn't see it till just now because for some reason it ended up in my junk folder, along with a number of other ConTeXt messages. You will probably have seen my reply to the list with the three solutions, now we have four! Yep, I know that A4 is the default page size and I always start with that but sometimes I play about with page sizes when typesetting and so can just change when coding. In the document I'm working on, some pages will only contain images and/or combination of images so I went down the Layers route since this also allows me to absolutely position these images on the page. Thanks again for your help! Best Wishes Keith McKay On 16/03/2023 17:58, Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context wrote:
On 3/16/23 17:59, Keith McKay via ntg-context wrote:
Hi,
I would like to position a combination of images where the centre of the combination coincides with the centre of the text area of a page. Hi Keith,
I think the following sample might achieve what you want:
\showframe \setupexternalfigures[location={default}] \setuplayout [backspace=2.5cm, topspace=1cm, height=28cm, width=17cm, header=0cm, footer=0.75cm, ] \definelayer[test3] %[x=.5\paperwidth, y=.5\paperheight] [x=.5\textwidth, y=.5\textheight] %\setupbackgrounds[page] \setupbackgrounds[text] [background=test3] \starttext \setlayer[test3][location={middle}] \framed[offset=overlay]{{\startcombination[nx=3,ny=1,distance=15mm] {\externalfigure[cow][width=15mm]}{} \rotate[rotation=90]{\externalfigure[cow][width=15mm]}{} {\externalfigure[cow][width=15mm]}{} \stopcombination}} \null \stoptext
BTW, A4 portrait is the default page size.
\setupbackgrounds is the standard way to place layers.
Page and text centering would require different positions (I have commented out the option for page centering).
I hope it helps (since I’m not sure I’m getting your point here),
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