Tom Fossen wrote:

This is probably a beginners question. While trying to understand the layer-mechanism I made a drawing which is meant as a background for a schedule in a magazine. I add the information within this drawing using the 'register' option I found on page 263 of the Metafun manual.

Here is the example in a minimal form:

\starttext \definelayer[rooster] \startuseMPgraphic{list} path p, s ; p := unitsquare scaled 3cm superellipsed 0.84 ; s := flex ((2.5cm,3.0cm), (10.0cm,3.0cm), (6.5cm,-0.5cm)) ; draw p withpen pencircle scaled 5pt withcolor .625white ; draw s withpen pencircle scaled 3pt withcolor .625white ; register ("da",2.4cm,2.4cm,(.3cm,2.8cm)) ; register ("name",5.6cm,0.6cm,(5.4cm,3.5cm)) ; register ("who",6cm,3cm,(3.4cm,2.8cm)) ; register("color",1.5cm,0.5cm,(7.6cm,-0.6cm)) ; \stopuseMPgraphic

\setMPlayer[rooster][da]{\framed [width=\MPlayerwidth,height=\MPlayerheight,align=right] {pos 1}} \setPlayer[rooster][name]{\framed [ [width=\MPlayerwidth,height=\MPlayerheight] {pos 2}} \setMPlayer[rooster][who]{\framed [width=\MPlayerwidth,height=\MPlayerheight,align=right] {pos 3}} \setMPlayer[rooster][color]{\framed [width=\MPlayerwidth,height=\MPlayerheight] {pos 4}}

\getMPlayer[rooster] {\useMPgraphic{list}} \stoptext

This works for the standard papersize. But I want this to work in a magazine on A5. So I add:

\setuppapersize [A5][A4] \setuparranging [2UP,rotated,doublesided] \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided] \setuplayout[margin=0pt,width=middle]

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