Eckhart Guthöhrlein wrote:
Hi all,
I have to prepare a scientific poster, and of cause using anything except TeX is below a real scientist's dignity. The main problem is that I have to arrange content rather freely on the page, without the regularity imposed by using tables or columns. Using layers for this purpose is probably best. I have started with something like:
\definelayer[ModelingLayer] \setupbackgrounds[page][background=ModelingLayer] \setlayer[ModelingLayer][position=no,x=1cm,y=1cm]{% \framed{Whatever}}
layers are ok for that, \starttext \useMPlibrary[dum] \setuppapersize [A1][A1] \setupcolors [state=start] \definelayer [page] [width=\paperwidth, height=\paperheight] \setupbackgrounds [page] [background=page] \startstandardmakeup \startbuffer \input ward \stopbuffer \setlayerframed [page] [preset=lefttop] [align=normal, width=.25\paperwidth, frame=off] {\getbuffer} \setlayerframed [page] [offset=.2\paperwidth, preset=righttop] [width=.2\paperwidth, align=normal] {\getbuffer} \setlayerframed [page] [preset=middle] [offset=1cm] {\externalfigure[whatever][width=4cm,height=5cm]} \stopstandardmakeup \stoptext ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------