Am 09.04.2009 um 22:14 schrieb Design Department:

Just tried the following snippet on the live.contextgarden.net with no joy: The layer content appears on a single line, whether I use \par, \\, \endgraf, \crlf or no line ending at all.

To help you I will explain why your setup did not work. TeX use boxes to place text, two different types are available and they are horizontal (\hbox) and vertical (\vbox) boxes. Text in a horizontal box is placed in a single line and \par \vskip ... is ignored, if your text is too long it runs over the right margin, only text in a vertical box is placed in multiple lines. The pure \setlayer command use a horizontal box for the content and did therefore not work for you, \setlayerframed is (simplified) a combination of \setlayer and \frame, the definition looks like \setlayer[name][setup]{\framed{text}}. The \framed command itself can act as horizontal or vertical box dependent on the setup, by default it acts like a horizontal box, to let it act as vertical box two setup need to be done (1) the alignment (format) of the text needs to be set with 'align=left|normal|...' and (2) it needs either a width or a height with is done with 'width=...' or 'height=...' or 'lines=...'. Your layer command should now look like: \setlayerframed [TicketSummary] [hoffset=.5\backspace, voffset=2.5in, width=3cm, align=right] {\bold{Client Name:}\\ Acme Corporation\\ \bold{Location of Work:} Main warehouse} Wolfgang

Am 09.04.2009 um 22:54 schrieb Design Department:

Thks. I was incorrectly assuming that the dimension properties, especially width, should be set in \definelayer. I'm not clear on the purpose of a separate \definelayer command, unless it's to allow the abstraction of layer offsets from topspace and backspace value, the way I have in this example.

It works now, though, and I'll accept that as an answer given my unwillingness to review that code for \definelayer ;-)

\definelayer creates new element to place elements in the background and \setlayer fills it with content. the width and height for \definelayer have a different purpose than the one for \setlayerframed, it's best to write just \definelayer[mylayer] or \definelayer[mylayer][width=\paperwidth,height=\paperheight] Wolfgang

Am 10.04.2009 um 00:53 schrieb luigi scarso:

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and why so many '%'? prevent spurios spaces

after \relax?

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\newdimen checks for the existence of a control sequence

the point is that on minimals-beta there is an error, on minimals no , but xpdf says

Error: ExtGState 'Tr0' is unknown Error: ExtGState 'Tr0' is unknown Error: ExtGState 'Tr0' is unknown Error: ExtGState 'Tr0' is unknown Error: ExtGState 'Tr0' is unknown

The code is not wrong -- maybe a bit strange

works fine here with preview app or adobe reader

Also this is ok in minimals fails in minimals-beta, and I think It's legal code, but I can fail .

\newdimen\currentlayerheight \starttext \currentlayerheight=\dimexpr 12pt +0pt\relax% \the\currentlayerheight \stoptex\newdimen\currentlayerheight

current: \newdimen\currentlayerheight -> create new dimen register beta: \newdimen\currentlayerheight -> check if \currentlayerheight is already defined, it true write a message to the terminal and do nothing else create a new dimen register what did not happen here because \currentlayerheight is defined in page-lyr.tex Wolfgang

I do not know what you precisely want to achieve. You need to give dimensions to the framed part of the \setlayerframed. Position the layer with the layer definition. Preset the layer to lefttop and move it with the x and y keys. \definelayer[TicketSummary] [x=\backspace, y=2\topspace, preset=lefttop, repeat=no] \setlayerframed[TicketSummary] [width=\textwidth,height=.5in,align=flushleft]{ \bold{Client Name:} Acme Corporation \\ \bold{Location of Work:} Main warehouse } Willi On Apr 9, 2009, at 10:14 PM, Design Department wrote:

\definelayer[TicketSummary] [x=\backspace, y=\topspace width=4in, height=4in, repeat=no] \setlayerframed[TicketSummary] [hoffset=.5\backspace, voffset=2.5in]{ \bold{Client Name:} \\ Acme Corporation \\ \bold{Location of Work:} Main warehouse }

\setupbackgrounds[page][background={TicketSummary}]

\starttext Hello world! \stoptext