Hello! What is the current most contextish way for absolute positioning of text (still using MK II)? I have to create a title page for a document where several frameless boxes of text have to be placed on the page. Is this still the layer mechanism? I mean, ConTeXt evolves so quickly, being absent for one real year means being absent for about 10 ConTeXt-years. Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki and more: http://contextgarden.net
On Sat, 08 Dec 2007 17:22:50 +0100
Patrick Gundlach
Hello!
What is the current most contextish way for absolute positioning of text (still using MK II)? I have to create a title page for a document where several frameless boxes of text have to be placed on the page. Is this still the layer mechanism? I mean, ConTeXt evolves so quickly, being absent for one real year means being absent for about 10 ConTeXt-years.
Patrick
Hi Patrick, seems like you have nearly finished your thesis and yes, layers are still the tool of your choice, especially the framed alternative \setlayerframed. You can pass font changes to the framed part with the setups command or set special backgrounds to the frame. Although I never used them you could take a look at collcetors, anchors (use layers intern) ornaments, a few of them are documented in the details manual but I don't what the difference is between them. BTW: LuaTeX on the wiki is broken, could be related to a outdated luatex because the error mesage is Error in lua file loading: /opt/context/current/bin/luatools.lua:1402: attempt to call field 'gettimeofday' (a nil value) Wolfgang
BTW: LuaTeX on the wiki is broken
Fixed. Thanks for the heads up!
could be related to a outdated luatex because the error mesage is Error in lua file loading: /opt/context/current/bin/luatools.lua:1402: attempt to call field 'gettimeofday' (a nil value)
Yes, that was it. The LuaTeX version used up to 5 minutes ago was SVN trunk revision 836, as written on the page. I've upgraded to beta-0.20.1 Arthur
Hi Wolfgang,
seems like you have nearly finished your thesis
Well, concerning time: yes. concerning progress: no.
and yes, layers are still the tool of your choice, especially the framed alternative \setlayerframed. You can pass font changes to the framed part with the setups command or set special backgrounds to the frame.
OK, I'll give it a try and post an example on the wiki. Thanks! Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki and more: http://contextgarden.net
Hello Wolfgang,
What is the current most contextish way for absolute positioning of text (still using MK II)?
layers are still the tool of your choice
Actually the examples on the wiki were very helpful. Thanks to all, Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki and more: http://contextgarden.net
Patrick Gundlach wrote:
Hello!
What is the current most contextish way for absolute positioning of text (still using MK II)? I have to create a title page for a document where several frameless boxes of text have to be placed on the page. Is this still the layer mechanism? I mean, ConTeXt evolves so quickly, being absent for one real year means being absent for about 10 ConTeXt-years.
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Wolfgang Schuster