Layer vs. overlay

Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o.

11 Jan 2013 11 Jan '13

8:32 a.m.

Hello, I need to add a text to the FOREGROUND of the page. - Layers can refer to a page (or its size) and elements in a layer are drawn BELLOW the (normal) page content. - Overlays are drawn ABOVE the (normal) page content and their size is given by an element (often \framed) which uses the overlay. So - I'd need a layer which would overlay the normal page content (like "foreground" or "topmost" layer) or an overlay which would refer to (= its size and position would depend on) the (current) page (instead of e.g. \framed); it should be a somewhat combination of layers & overlays. How to achieve this in ConTeXt? Best regards, Lukas -- Ing. Lukáš Procházka [mailto:LPr@pontex.cz] Pontex s. r. o. [mailto:pontex@pontex.cz] [http://www.pontex.cz] Bezová 1658 147 14 Praha 4 Tel: +420 244 062 238 Fax: +420 244 461 038

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Hans Hagen

11 Jan 11 Jan

11:06 a.m.

On 1/11/2013 4:32 PM, Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. wrote:

...

Hello,

I need to add a text to the FOREGROUND of the page.

- Layers can refer to a page (or its size) and elements in a layer are drawn BELLOW the (normal) page content.

- Overlays are drawn ABOVE the (normal) page content and their size is given by an element (often \framed) which uses the overlay.

So - I'd need a layer which would overlay the normal page content (like "foreground" or "topmost" layer) or an overlay which would refer to (= its size and position would depend on) the (current) page (instead of e.g. \framed); it should be a somewhat combination of layers & overlays.

How to achieve this in ConTeXt?

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Wolfgang Schuster

12 Jan 12 Jan

12:44 a.m.

Am 11.01.2013 um 16:32 schrieb Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. :

...

Hello,

I need to add a text to the FOREGROUND of the page.

- Layers can refer to a page (or its size) and elements in a layer are drawn BELLOW the (normal) page content.

- Overlays are drawn ABOVE the (normal) page content and their size is given by an element (often \framed) which uses the overlay.

So - I'd need a layer which would overlay the normal page content (like "foreground" or "topmost" layer) or an overlay which would refer to (= its size and position would depend on) the (current) page (instead of e.g. \framed); it should be a somewhat combination of layers & overlays.

How to achieve this in ConTeXt?

Overlays and Layers are to different mechanism which are powerful when you combine both but first you have to know what each of them does. 1. Overlays ConTeXt has a overlay environment which cane used in the text to stack the arguments on the same spot. When take a close look at the example you can see each new element is placed on top of the previous element, when you remove the \strut in the argument you would also notice that each argument is placed horizontal and vertical centered. \setupbodyfont[40pt] \starttext \startoverlay {\strut\red m} {\strut\green a} {\strut\blue l} \stopoverlay \stoptext After you do know now what overlays are I come to the real overlay mechanism. Overlays are created with the \defineoverlay command which takes a name for the overlay and its content. The overlays are then applied to a \framed command or the background to the page the textblock, header etc. In the next example I created two new overlays with the names “behind” and “before” (the name itself doesn’t matter) which I activated in the frame with tha background key. \starttext \defineoverlay[behind][{\blackrule[height=2cm,width=8cm,color=yellow]}] \defineoverlay[before][{\blackrule[height=8cm,width=2cm,color=orange]}] \framed [width=10cm, height=10cm, background={color,behind,foreground,before}, backgroundcolor=red] {\blackrule[width=6cm,height=6cm,color=blue]} \stoptext When you look at the arguments of the background key you can used two more names besides my own “behind” and “before” overlays. The first name in the list “color” is needed when you can to use the argument of the backgroundcolor key which puts a color two the whole area of the frame. The second name “foreground” is more interesting because with this you can place overlays *before* the content of the frame because “foreground” is the frame text itself. The differences between the overlay environment at the begin and the overlay mechanism for framed aren’t so big, only the methods to set them because in the first case you set the content for each level which the argument in braces ({…}{…}) and in the second case you define them first with \defineoverlay and set the order in the background key. 2. Layers When you have used layers the content of each layer was always centered in the frame but with layers you can put the content from each command at a certain horizontal and vertical position. In the following example I created a new layer and set three texts for it which are afterwards placed in the page which the \flushlayer command. \starttext \definelayer[test] \setlayer[test][x=3cm,y=6cm]{ONE} \setlayer[test][x=8cm,y=2cm]{TWO} \setlayer[test][x=2cm,y=9cm]{THREE} \flushlayer[test] \stoptext When you put new some text after \flushlayer would be surprised because it would end put on the following page but you shouldn’t wonder about this because layers have nothing to do with the page background or foreground. What makes the layer and overlay mechanism is interesting is when you combine them and put the \flushlayer command in a overlay which does now place the texts before or after the content of a frame. With my next example we’re finally in the process to combine them. \setupbodyfont[30pt] \starttext \definelayer[behindtext] \definelayer[beforetext] \setupbackgrounds[text][background={behindtext,foreground,beforetext}] \setlayer[behindtext][x=-2cm,y=.75ex]{\red Behind} \setlayer[beforetext][x=+2cm,y=.75ex]{\yellow Before} The Text! \setlayer[behindtext][x=5cm,y=4cm]{\red More background text!} \setlayer[beforetext][x=3cm,y=8cm]{\yellow More foreground text!} \stoptext When you look at the example you can see that haven't created a overlay for layer even though I said you need it to put the layer after the text. This isn’t necessary because when you create a new layer context does also create a overlay with the same name in which the layer is placed. The other question is how you can place overlays on the text/page when I told before overalls can only be placed on frame, this is possible because all page elements (textblock, header, footer and even the page and paper itself) are frames. Even though these elements are frames they don’t provide all the options from \framed because they are a special version with less functionality. Wolfgang

Procházka Lukáš

3:36 a.m.

Hello Wolfgang, thank you for your very detailed answer. I'll - try to understand how it works, try your examples what they'll produce... Best regards, Lukas On Sat, 12 Jan 2013 08:44:21 +0100, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

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Am 11.01.2013 um 16:32 schrieb Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. :

...
Hello,

I need to add a text to the FOREGROUND of the page.

- Layers can refer to a page (or its size) and elements in a layer are drawn BELLOW the (normal) page content.

- Overlays are drawn ABOVE the (normal) page content and their size is given by an element (often \framed) which uses the overlay.

So - I'd need a layer which would overlay the normal page content (like "foreground" or "topmost" layer) or an overlay which would refer to (= its size and position would depend on) the (current) page (instead of e.g. \framed); it should be a somewhat combination of layers & overlays.

How to achieve this in ConTeXt?

Overlays and Layers are to different mechanism which are powerful when you combine both but first you have to know what each of them does.

1. Overlays

ConTeXt has a overlay environment which cane used in the text to stack the arguments on the same spot. When take a close look at the example you can see each new element is placed on top of the previous element, when you remove the \strut in the argument you would also notice that each argument is placed horizontal and vertical centered.

\setupbodyfont[40pt]

\starttext

\startoverlay {\strut\red m} {\strut\green a} {\strut\blue l} \stopoverlay

\stoptext

After you do know now what overlays are I come to the real overlay mechanism.

Overlays are created with the \defineoverlay command which takes a name for the overlay and its content. The overlays are then applied to a \framed command or the background to the page the textblock, header etc.

In the next example I created two new overlays with the names “behind” and “before” (the name itself doesn’t matter) which I activated in the frame with tha background key.

\starttext

\defineoverlay[behind][{\blackrule[height=2cm,width=8cm,color=yellow]}] \defineoverlay[before][{\blackrule[height=8cm,width=2cm,color=orange]}]

\framed [width=10cm, height=10cm, background={color,behind,foreground,before}, backgroundcolor=red] {\blackrule[width=6cm,height=6cm,color=blue]}

\stoptext

When you look at the arguments of the background key you can used two more names besides my own “behind” and “before” overlays. The first name in the list “color” is needed when you can to use the argument of the backgroundcolor key which puts a color two the whole area of the frame. The second name “foreground” is more interesting because with this you can place overlays *before* the content of the frame because “foreground” is the frame text itself.

The differences between the overlay environment at the begin and the overlay mechanism for framed aren’t so big, only the methods to set them because in the first case you set the content for each level which the argument in braces ({…}{…}) and in the second case you define them first with \defineoverlay and set the order in the background key.

2. Layers

When you have used layers the content of each layer was always centered in the frame but with layers you can put the content from each command at a certain horizontal and vertical position.

In the following example I created a new layer and set three texts for it which are afterwards placed in the page which the \flushlayer command.

\starttext

\definelayer[test]

\setlayer[test][x=3cm,y=6cm]{ONE} \setlayer[test][x=8cm,y=2cm]{TWO} \setlayer[test][x=2cm,y=9cm]{THREE}

\flushlayer[test]

\stoptext

When you put new some text after \flushlayer would be surprised because it would end put on the following page but you shouldn’t wonder about this because layers have nothing to do with the page background or foreground.

What makes the layer and overlay mechanism is interesting is when you combine them and put the \flushlayer command in a overlay which does now place the texts before or after the content of a frame. With my next example we’re finally in the process to combine them.

\setupbodyfont[30pt]

\starttext

\definelayer[behindtext] \definelayer[beforetext]

\setupbackgrounds[text][background={behindtext,foreground,beforetext}]

\setlayer[behindtext][x=-2cm,y=.75ex]{\red Behind} \setlayer[beforetext][x=+2cm,y=.75ex]{\yellow Before}

The Text!

\setlayer[behindtext][x=5cm,y=4cm]{\red More background text!} \setlayer[beforetext][x=3cm,y=8cm]{\yellow More foreground text!}

\stoptext

When you look at the example you can see that haven't created a overlay for layer even though I said you need it to put the layer after the text. This isn’t necessary because when you create a new layer context does also create a overlay with the same name in which the layer is placed. The other question is how you can place overlays on the text/page when I told before overalls can only be placed on frame, this is possible because all page elements (textblock, header, footer and even the page and paper itself) are frames. Even though these elements are frames they don’t provide all the options from \framed because they are a special version with less functionality.

Wolfgang ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki!

maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________

Hans Hagen

6:25 a.m.

On 1/12/2013 8:44 AM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

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Overlays and Layers are to different mechanism which are powerful when you combine both but first you have to know what each of them does.

...

...

perfect explanation Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

Procházka Lukáš

10:54 a.m.

New subject: [***Spam/VIR***] Re: Layer vs. overlay

Hello Wolfgang, some more attempts: The sample Lay3 is simple enough and brings some text to the top of the page: ---- \setupbodyfont[30pt] \setuplayout[page] \starttext \definelayer[beforetext] \setupbackgrounds [page] [background={foreground,beforetext}] \setlayer[beforetext]{\red BEFORE} The Text! \stoptext ---- This works well. The Lay4 differs in one point - it encloses the text into \start/stop-TEXpage: ---- \setupbodyfont[30pt] \starttext \startTEXpage \definelayer[beforetext] \setupbackgrounds [page] [background={foreground,beforetext}] \setlayer[beforetext]{\red BEFORE} The Text! \stopTEXpage \stoptext ---- In the latter case, the red text "BEFORE" doesn't appear. What's wrong? How to make it appear? Best regards, Lukas On Sat, 12 Jan 2013 08:44:21 +0100, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

...

Am 11.01.2013 um 16:32 schrieb Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. :

...
Hello,

I need to add a text to the FOREGROUND of the page.

- Layers can refer to a page (or its size) and elements in a layer are drawn BELLOW the (normal) page content.

- Overlays are drawn ABOVE the (normal) page content and their size is given by an element (often \framed) which uses the overlay.

So - I'd need a layer which would overlay the normal page content (like "foreground" or "topmost" layer) or an overlay which would refer to (= its size and position would depend on) the (current) page (instead of e.g. \framed); it should be a somewhat combination of layers & overlays.

How to achieve this in ConTeXt?

Overlays and Layers are to different mechanism which are powerful when you combine both but first you have to know what each of them does.

1. Overlays

ConTeXt has a overlay environment which cane used in the text to stack the arguments on the same spot. When take a close look at the example you can see each new element is placed on top of the previous element, when you remove the \strut in the argument you would also notice that each argument is placed horizontal and vertical centered.

\setupbodyfont[40pt]

\starttext

\startoverlay {\strut\red m} {\strut\green a} {\strut\blue l} \stopoverlay

\stoptext

After you do know now what overlays are I come to the real overlay mechanism.

Overlays are created with the \defineoverlay command which takes a name for the overlay and its content. The overlays are then applied to a \framed command or the background to the page the textblock, header etc.

In the next example I created two new overlays with the names “behind” and “before” (the name itself doesn’t matter) which I activated in the frame with tha background key.

\starttext

\defineoverlay[behind][{\blackrule[height=2cm,width=8cm,color=yellow]}] \defineoverlay[before][{\blackrule[height=8cm,width=2cm,color=orange]}]

\framed [width=10cm, height=10cm, background={color,behind,foreground,before}, backgroundcolor=red] {\blackrule[width=6cm,height=6cm,color=blue]}

\stoptext

When you look at the arguments of the background key you can used two more names besides my own “behind” and “before” overlays. The first name in the list “color” is needed when you can to use the argument of the backgroundcolor key which puts a color two the whole area of the frame. The second name “foreground” is more interesting because with this you can place overlays *before* the content of the frame because “foreground” is the frame text itself.

The differences between the overlay environment at the begin and the overlay mechanism for framed aren’t so big, only the methods to set them because in the first case you set the content for each level which the argument in braces ({…}{…}) and in the second case you define them first with \defineoverlay and set the order in the background key.

2. Layers

When you have used layers the content of each layer was always centered in the frame but with layers you can put the content from each command at a certain horizontal and vertical position.

In the following example I created a new layer and set three texts for it which are afterwards placed in the page which the \flushlayer command.

\starttext

\definelayer[test]

\setlayer[test][x=3cm,y=6cm]{ONE} \setlayer[test][x=8cm,y=2cm]{TWO} \setlayer[test][x=2cm,y=9cm]{THREE}

\flushlayer[test]

\stoptext

When you put new some text after \flushlayer would be surprised because it would end put on the following page but you shouldn’t wonder about this because layers have nothing to do with the page background or foreground.

What makes the layer and overlay mechanism is interesting is when you combine them and put the \flushlayer command in a overlay which does now place the texts before or after the content of a frame. With my next example we’re finally in the process to combine them.

\setupbodyfont[30pt]

\starttext

\definelayer[behindtext] \definelayer[beforetext]

\setupbackgrounds[text][background={behindtext,foreground,beforetext}]

\setlayer[behindtext][x=-2cm,y=.75ex]{\red Behind} \setlayer[beforetext][x=+2cm,y=.75ex]{\yellow Before}

The Text!

\setlayer[behindtext][x=5cm,y=4cm]{\red More background text!} \setlayer[beforetext][x=3cm,y=8cm]{\yellow More foreground text!}

\stoptext

When you look at the example you can see that haven't created a overlay for layer even though I said you need it to put the layer after the text. This isn’t necessary because when you create a new layer context does also create a overlay with the same name in which the layer is placed. The other question is how you can place overlays on the text/page when I told before overalls can only be placed on frame, this is possible because all page elements (textblock, header, footer and even the page and paper itself) are frames. Even though these elements are frames they don’t provide all the options from \framed because they are a special version with less functionality.

Wolfgang ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki!

maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________

Wolfgang Schuster

11:11 a.m.

Am 12.01.2013 um 18:54 schrieb Procházka Lukáš :

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Hello Wolfgang,

some more attempts:

The sample Lay3 is simple enough and brings some text to the top of the page:

---- \setupbodyfont[30pt] \setuplayout[page]

\starttext \definelayer[beforetext]

\setupbackgrounds [page] [background={foreground,beforetext}]

\setlayer[beforetext]{\red BEFORE}

The Text! \stoptext ----

This works well.

The Lay4 differs in one point - it encloses the text into \start/stop-TEXpage:

---- \setupbodyfont[30pt]

\starttext \startTEXpage \definelayer[beforetext]

\setupbackgrounds [page] [background={foreground,beforetext}]

\setlayer[beforetext]{\red BEFORE}

The Text! \stopTEXpage \stoptext ----

In the latter case, the red text "BEFORE" doesn't appear.

What's wrong? How to make it appear?

Move \definelayer and \setupbackgrounds *before* \startTEXpage because the environment creates a local group and you background setup is lost. Wolfgang

Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o.

15 Jan 15 Jan

1:04 a.m.

On Sat, 12 Jan 2013 19:11:47 +0100, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

...

Move \definelayer and \setupbackgrounds *before* \startTEXpage because the environment creates a local group and you background setup is lost.

... Thanks for the hint - here's my next trial. It should write "BEFORE" to tho top right corner of the page. ---- \setupbodyfont[30pt] \starttext A \bgroup \definelayer[beforetext][width=\paperwidth,preset=righttop] \setupbackgrounds [page] [background={foreground,beforetext}] \startTEXpage \setlayer[beforetext]{\framed[width=2in]{BEFORE}} \externalfigure[cow][width=30cm] \stopTEXpage \egroup Z \stoptext ---- The problem now is the layer "beforetext" has width of the page in the moment is is defined - 21 cm. But the layer is supposed to be used later inside \start/stop-TEXpage whose page size may be arbitrary, or better, the size will result from the content it will contain. In my example - an image of 30 cm width is to define the page size. And the text "BEFORE" is not put to the top right corner of the (30 cm) page (what I'd like to achieve) but to cca 2 thirds of these 30 cm (given by \pagewidth which was 21 cm at the moment of definition). I would probably need a way to alter the layer size to the current content... Or any other way to place something to the top right corner of the page from within \start/stop-TEXpage, where page size is not known in advance? Best regards, Lukas -- Ing. Lukáš Procházka [mailto:LPr@pontex.cz] Pontex s. r. o. [mailto:pontex@pontex.cz] [http://www.pontex.cz] Bezová 1658 147 14 Praha 4 Tel: +420 244 062 238 Fax: +420 244 461 038

Wolfgang Schuster

3:09 a.m.

Am 15.01.2013 um 09:04 schrieb Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. :

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On Sat, 12 Jan 2013 19:11:47 +0100, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

...
Move \definelayer and \setupbackgrounds *before* \startTEXpage because the environment creates a local group and you background setup is lost.

... Thanks for the hint - here's my next trial.

It should write "BEFORE" to tho top right corner of the page.

---- \setupbodyfont[30pt]

\starttext A

\bgroup \definelayer[beforetext][width=\paperwidth,preset=righttop]

\setupbackgrounds [page] [background={foreground,beforetext}]

\startTEXpage \setlayer[beforetext]{\framed[width=2in]{BEFORE}} \externalfigure[cow][width=30cm] \stopTEXpage \egroup

Z \stoptext ----

The problem now is the layer "beforetext" has width of the page in the moment is is defined - 21 cm.

But the layer is supposed to be used later inside \start/stop-TEXpage whose page size may be arbitrary, or better, the size will result from the content it will contain.

In my example - an image of 30 cm width is to define the page size.

And the text "BEFORE" is not put to the top right corner of the (30 cm) page (what I'd like to achieve) but to cca 2 thirds of these 30 cm (given by \pagewidth which was 21 cm at the moment of definition).

I would probably need a way to alter the layer size to the current content...

Or any other way to place something to the top right corner of the page from within \start/stop-TEXpage, where page size is not known in advance?

\setupbodyfont[30pt] \starttext A \definelayer [beforetext][width=\overlaywidth,height=\overlayheight] \defineoverlay[beforetext][{\setups[beforetext]\tightlayer[beforetext]}] \startsetups[beforetext] \setlayer[beforetext][preset=righttop]{\framed[width=2in]{BEFORE}} \stopsetups \startTEXpage[background={foreground,beforetext}] \externalfigure[cow][width=30cm] \stopTEXpage Z \stoptext A similar example is also on the wiki: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Layers#Place_labels_on_pictures Wolfgang

Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o.

5:10 a.m.

New subject: [***Spam/VIR***] Re: Layer vs. overlay

... Thanks again. On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 11:09:48 +0100, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

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\setupbodyfont[30pt]

\starttext

A

\definelayer [beforetext][width=\overlaywidth,height=\overlayheight] \defineoverlay[beforetext][{\setups[beforetext]\tightlayer[beforetext]}]

\startsetups[beforetext] \setlayer[beforetext][preset=righttop]{\framed[width=2in]{BEFORE}} \stopsetups

\startTEXpage[background={foreground,beforetext}] \externalfigure[cow][width=30cm] \stopTEXpage

Z

\stoptext

A similar example is also on the wiki: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Layers#Place_labels_on_pictures

Yes, I started altering it... But I wans't sure abou relation layers vs. overlays vs. setups. I'd need also to add some dynamically generated content, something like \pagenumber in the wiki example, but to be generated by Lua. So I extended your example: ---- \setupbodyfont[30pt] \starttext A \definelayer [beforetext][width=\overlaywidth,height=\overlayheight] \defineoverlay[beforetext][{\setups[beforetext]\tightlayer[beforetext]}] \startsetups[beforetext] \setlayer[beforetext][preset=righttop]{\framed[width=2in]{\directlua{context(userdata.LPr.text)}}} \stopsetups \startTEXpage[background={foreground,beforetext}] \startluacode userdata = userdata or {} userdata.LPr = userdata.LPr or {} userdata.LPr.text = "BEF" context.externalfigure({"cow"},{width="30cm"}) \stopluacode \stopTEXpage Z \stoptext ---- I believe I used a proper way; if not so, please correct "bad places". (Finally: I'd like to achieve a Lua function which will copy all pages of a .pdf file, keeping size of each page, and adding a customizable string with page-in-the-pdf number (with default value "<page-i>/<n-pages>"), being placed to the right top corner of the i-th page. All to be provided by Lua.) Thanks again. Best regards, Lukas

...

Wolfgang

-- Ing. Lukáš Procházka [mailto:LPr@pontex.cz] Pontex s. r. o. [mailto:pontex@pontex.cz] [http://www.pontex.cz] Bezová 1658 147 14 Praha 4 Tel: +420 244 062 238 Fax: +420 244 461 038

Aditya Mahajan

5:25 a.m.

New subject: [***Spam/VIR***] Re: Layer vs. overlay

On Tue, 15 Jan 2013, Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. wrote:

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(Finally: I'd like to achieve a Lua function which will copy all pages of a .pdf file, keeping size of each page, and adding a customizable string with page-in-the-pdf number (with default value "<page-i>/<n-pages>"), being placed to the right top corner of the i-th page. All to be provided by Lua.)

A few years ago I wrote a module that, amongst other things, did this. (The mail purpose of the module was to cut 2 column journal papers to one column PDF so that they are easy to read on an eink reader. I haven't used this in a while, so it may not work out of the box). https://github.com/adityam/cut-n-paste/blob/master/tex/context/third/cut-n-p... In this case, I used a MetaPost overylay to draw the page number (search for cnp:text). The user could manipulate the location of the page number by using the location key (which had to be a valid Metapost pair). Aditya

Philipp Gesang

9:21 a.m.

New subject: [***Spam/VIR***] Re: Layer vs. overlay

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On Tue, 15 Jan 2013, Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. wrote:

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(Finally: I'd like to achieve a Lua function which will copy all pages of a .pdf file, keeping size of each page, and adding a customizable string with page-in-the-pdf number (with default value "<page-i>/<n-pages>"), being placed to the right top corner of the i-th page. All to be provided by Lua.)

A few years ago I wrote a module that, amongst other things, did this. (The mail purpose of the module was to cut 2 column journal papers to one column PDF so that they are easy to read on an eink reader. I haven't used this in a while, so it may not work out of the box).

https://github.com/adityam/cut-n-paste/blob/master/tex/context/third/cut-n-p...

It works reliably with recent versions. I use it quite a lot atm for a project that requires compiling several individual documents into larger ones and it has never failed me so far. Thanks, btw, this saves some work! Regards Philipp

Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o.

16 Jan 16 Jan

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Hello, @Aditya: Thanks for the tip - maybe some inspiration for me. Anyway, I keep on trying to create my previously described function with Lua. Now, I have a code which does much expected, but I'm not able to pass the desired content to setups/layer: ---- \setupbodyfont[30pt] \starttext A \definelayer [beforetext][width=\overlaywidth,height=\overlayheight] \defineoverlay[beforetext][{\setups[beforetext]\tightlayer[beforetext]}] \startsetups[beforetext] \setlayer[beforetext][preset=righttop]{\framed[width=2in]{\directlua{context(userdata.LPr.text)}}} \stopsetups \startluacode userdata = userdata or {} userdata.LPr = userdata.LPr or {} for i = 1, 2 do context.startTEXpage{background="foreground,beforetext"} userdata.LPr.text = "BEF" .. i context.externalfigure({"cow"},{width="30cm"}) context.stopTEXpage() end \stopluacode Z \stoptext ---- Both images of the cow have "BEF2" in the top right corner, but there should be "BEF1" on the former and "BEF2" on the latter. I'm trying to pass the text string ("BEF" .. i) via userdata, but it doesn't work. So how to do it? Lukas On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 13:25:04 +0100, Aditya Mahajan wrote:

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On Tue, 15 Jan 2013, Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. wrote:

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(Finally: I'd like to achieve a Lua function which will copy all pages of a .pdf file, keeping size of each page, and adding a customizable string with page-in-the-pdf number (with default value "<page-i>/<n-pages>"), being placed to the right top corner of the i-th page. All to be provided by Lua.)

A few years ago I wrote a module that, amongst other things, did this. (The mail purpose of the module was to cut 2 column journal papers to one column PDF so that they are easy to read on an eink reader. I haven't used this in a while, so it may not work out of the box).

https://github.com/adityam/cut-n-paste/blob/master/tex/context/third/cut-n-p...

In this case, I used a MetaPost overylay to draw the page number (search for cnp:text). The user could manipulate the location of the page number by using the location key (which had to be a valid Metapost pair).

Aditya

-- Ing. Lukáš Procházka [mailto:LPr@pontex.cz] Pontex s. r. o. [mailto:pontex@pontex.cz] [http://www.pontex.cz] Bezová 1658 147 14 Praha 4 Tel: +420 244 062 238 Fax: +420 244 461 038

Philipp Gesang

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New subject: [***Spam/VIR***] Re: Layer vs. overlay

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Now, I have a code which does much expected, but I'm not able to pass the desired content to setups/layer:

---- \setupbodyfont[30pt]

\starttext A

\definelayer [beforetext][width=\overlaywidth,height=\overlayheight] \defineoverlay[beforetext][{\setups[beforetext]\tightlayer[beforetext]}]

\startsetups[beforetext] \setlayer[beforetext][preset=righttop]{\framed[width=2in]{\directlua{context(userdata.LPr.text)}}} \stopsetups

\startluacode userdata = userdata or {} userdata.LPr = userdata.LPr or {}

for i = 1, 2 do context.startTEXpage{background="foreground,beforetext"} userdata.LPr.text = "BEF" .. i

context.externalfigure({"cow"},{width="30cm"}) context.stopTEXpage() end \stopluacode

Z \stoptext ----

Both images of the cow have "BEF2" in the top right corner, but there should be "BEF1" on the former and "BEF2" on the latter.

I'm trying to pass the text string ("BEF" .. i) via userdata, but it doesn't work.

Afair entire Lua snippet is evaluated first, so any calls to TEX are delayed until after the loop is executed. Thus the layer is drawn only when LPr.text already has the final value. But I’m not entirely sure that’s the correct explanation.

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So how to do it?

Lookup the correct string from a table? ······································································· \setupbodyfont[30pt] \starttext A \definelayer [beforetext][width=\overlaywidth,height=\overlayheight] \defineoverlay[beforetext][{\setups[beforetext]\tightlayer[beforetext]}] \startsetups[beforetext] \setlayer[beforetext][preset=righttop] {\framed[width=2in]{\directlua{userdata.LPr.get_label()}}} \stopsetups \startluacode userdata = userdata or { } userdata.LPr = userdata.LPr or { } local labels = { } local current = 0 userdata.LPr.get_label = function ( ) current = current + 1 context(labels[current]) end for i = 1, 2 do context.startTEXpage { background = "foreground,beforetext" } labels[i] = "BEF" .. i context.externalfigure({"cow"},{width="30cm"}) context.stopTEXpage() end \stopluacode Z \stoptext ······································································· Regards Philipp

Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o.

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Hello, On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:47:21 +0100, Philipp Gesang wrote:

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Lookup the correct string from a table?

thanks for the idea - - in other words, we have to keep running results somewhere; the algorithm fills a table with texts for each page, and each \setlayer takes one value back, so we can simplify to: ---- \setupbodyfont[30pt] \starttext A \definelayer [beforetext][width=\overlaywidth,height=\overlayheight] \defineoverlay[beforetext][{\setups[beforetext]\tightlayer[beforetext]}] \startsetups[beforetext] \setlayer[beforetext][preset=righttop] {\framed[width=2in]{\directlua{context(table.remove(userdata.LPr.texts, 1))}}} \stopsetups \startluacode userdata = userdata or { } userdata.LPr = userdata.LPr or { } userdata.LPr.texts = {} for i = 1, 2 do context.startTEXpage { background = "foreground,beforetext" } table.insert(userdata.LPr.texts, "BEF" .. i) context.externalfigure({"cow"},{width="30cm"}) context.stopTEXpage() end \stopluacode Z \stoptext ---- This works. I'm just thinking whether it would be possible to simplify that all - we're using overlays, layers, setups for overlays and an internal table to keep running results... BTW: What does \tightlayer[beforetext] exactly do? Q2: Why some layer properties are specified on \definelayer (beforetext: width=\overlaywidth,height=\overlayheight) and some during overlay setups (beforetext: preset=righttop)? Lukas -- Ing. Lukáš Procházka [mailto:LPr@pontex.cz] Pontex s. r. o. [mailto:pontex@pontex.cz] [http://www.pontex.cz] Bezová 1658 147 14 Praha 4 Tel: +420 244 062 238 Fax: +420 244 461 038

Philipp Gesang

6:34 a.m.

New subject: [***Spam/VIR***] Re: Layer vs. overlay

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Hello,

On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:47:21 +0100, Philipp Gesang wrote:

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Lookup the correct string from a table?

thanks for the idea -

- in other words, we have to keep running results somewhere;

Yes, this is simple because the order of processing doesn’t change -- as long as the data you aggregate fits into your memory, of course!

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the algorithm fills a table with texts for each page, and each \setlayer takes one value back, so we can simplify to:

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\setlayer[beforetext][preset=righttop] {\framed[width=2in]{\directlua{context(table.remove(userdata.LPr.texts, 1))}}}

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context.startTEXpage { background = "foreground,beforetext" } table.insert(userdata.LPr.texts, "BEF" .. i)

context.externalfigure({"cow"},{width="30cm"}) context.stopTEXpage()

From my tests calling table.remove() to remove the first element in a list is extremely inefficient compared to accessing an array. (For 10^5 elements it’s 1m41.644s vs. 0m0.030s on my machine.) While we’re at it, table.insert() involves an extra function call that carries another perfomance penalty, albeit a much smaller one. Your code should do the same, though. Regards Philipp

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