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

On Tuesday 16 November 2010 22:16:33 Peter Davis wrote:

Thanks! I didn't find much in the ConTeXt reference manual on this. Is there more info somewhere?

\position is (will be) fully documented in the updated reference manual. :) (I was not aware of positioning, either!) Again, we see that ConTeXt is quite rich, and our documentation lags far behind. As to layers, see: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Layers We also have collectors: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Collectors See also: http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/details.pdf On Wednesday 17 November 2010 09:25:23 Hans Hagen wrote:

On 17-11-2010 1:59, Martin Schröder wrote:

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2010/11/17, Hans Hagen:

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On 16-11-2010 9:41, Peter Münster wrote:

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Layers or overlays are certainly the right method. But there is also the

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\position macro: So that is still used? (If so, I should look into optimizing and cleanup as it's real old code).

Seems like a feature that's nice to have; it mirrors the texpos package for LaTeX. Please update it.

It does not really mirrors something (so it's not something users expect to be there I guess) ... if I remember right I made it for putting hyperlinks on specific places as I didn't want to use pictex for that. We have layers that provide a better mechanism.

Anyway, it's not that much code so it can stick around (I even see a dutch comment so it's real ancient).

Hans

Hans, 1. It would be natural to have \startframed\stopframed 2. A collector may be more natural than layers (used as a page background). (As seen through "Force ConTeXt to produce a page with „\page[empty]“ or „\dontleavehmode\page“ when you have enough material for one page or when you’re at the end of your document.") Is there any need for some helper macros, or do we simply need a few good examples? Alan