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Hi all, I have a vague memory that there was a message (by Wolfgang Schuster?) about this a couple of months ago, but I'm unable to find anything in the archives. What I want: add a layer on top of the current page. This page is created with the simpleslides-module, so it already contains several layers. I want something on top of all that, and I seem to remember that there was some option to say "typeset the current layers + this additional one." Can somebody help my memory? All best Thomas
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Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
Hi all,
I have a vague memory that there was a message (by Wolfgang Schuster?) about this a couple of months ago, but I'm unable to find anything in the archives. What I want: add a layer on top of the current page. This page is created with the simpleslides-module, so it already contains several layers. I want something on top of all that, and I seem to remember that there was some option to say "typeset the current layers + this additional one." Can somebody help my memory?
\defineoverlay[x][a] \defineoverlay[x][b] \setupbackgrounds ... [background={a,foreground,b} etc .. in your module you can just add a few more in the chain (unknown ones are ignored) ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------
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Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
Hi all,
I have a vague memory that there was a message (by Wolfgang Schuster?) about this a couple of months ago, but I'm unable to find anything in the archives. What I want: add a layer on top of the current page. This page is created with the simpleslides-module, so it already contains several layers. I want something on top of all that, and I seem to remember that there was some option to say "typeset the current layers + this additional one." Can somebody help my memory?
\defineoverlay[x][a] \defineoverlay[x][b]
\setupbackgrounds ... [background={a,foreground,b}
b is on the top of foreground foreground is on the top of a a is the base layer -- luigi
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On Jun 28, 2009, at 12:30 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
\defineoverlay[x][a] \defineoverlay[x][b]
\setupbackgrounds ... [background={a,foreground,b}
etc .. in your module you can just add a few more in the chain (unknown ones are ignored)
Thanks, Hans and Luigi, that was very fast! Yes, this works wonderfully! All best Thomas
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On Sun, 28 Jun 2009, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
Hi all,
I have a vague memory that there was a message (by Wolfgang Schuster?) about this a couple of months ago, but I'm unable to find anything in the archives. What I want: add a layer on top of the current page. This page is created with the simpleslides-module, so it already contains several layers. I want something on top of all that, and I seem to remember that there was some option to say "typeset the current layers + this additional one." Can somebody help my memory?
Do you mean: http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20060115.080349.8efe83be.en.html This works with MkII but not MkIV. For example, \usemodule[simpleslides][style=BigNumber] \defineoverlay [test] [{\framed[align={middle,middle}, width=\overlaywidth, height=\overlayheight]{TEST}}] \starttext \SlideTitle {ABC} \input tufte \page \SlideTitle {ABC} \expandparameters\setupbackgrounds[page][background={\currentvalue,test}] \input tufte \stoptext Aditya
participants (5)
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Aditya Mahajan
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Hans Hagen
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luigi scarso
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Thomas A. Schmitz
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Wolfgang Schuster