Am 2020-01-26 um 13:07 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm :

I thought I’d try columnset areas for the placement of ads:

This MWE shows better what’s going on: The "area" space is reserved as requested, but its contents get placed elsewhere. \usemodule[visual] \useMPlibrary[dum] \definecolor[fakerulecolor][gray] \setuplayout[ grid=yes, ] \showframe[text] \showgrid \definecolumnset[Two][ n=2, page=no, ] %\definecolumnsetspan[TwoSpan][n=2] \definecolumnsetarea[AdSpace][ x=1,y=21, nx=1,ny=21, state=stop, frame=on, framecolor=magenta, ] \starttext \startcolumnset[Two] \dorecurse{10}{\fakewords{100}{120}\par} \setupcolumnsetarea[AdSpace][state=start] \setupcolumnsetareatext[AdSpace]{\externalfigure[MyAd][width=\textwidth,height=0.45\textheight]} \fakewords{200}{200} \stopcolumnset \stoptext HR

Am 2020-01-27 um 20:28 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster :

Henning Hraban Ramm schrieb am 27.01.2020 um 10:31:

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Am 2020-01-26 um 13:07 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm :

I thought I’d try columnset areas for the placement of ads: This MWE shows better what’s going on: The "area" space is reserved as requested, but its contents get placed elsewhere.

\usemodule[visual] \useMPlibrary[dum] \definecolor[fakerulecolor][gray] \setuplayout[ grid=yes, ] \showframe[text] \showgrid

\definecolumnset[Two][ n=2, page=no, ] %\definecolumnsetspan[TwoSpan][n=2] \definecolumnsetarea[AdSpace][ x=1,y=21, nx=1,ny=21, state=stop, frame=on, framecolor=magenta, ]

\starttext \startcolumnset[Two]

\dorecurse{10}{\fakewords{100}{120}\par}

\setupcolumnsetarea[AdSpace][state=start] \setupcolumnsetareatext[AdSpace]{\externalfigure[MyAd][width=\textwidth,height=0.45\textheight]}

You need brackets for both argument, i.e. \setupcolumnsetareatext[...][...] but even then your example only works when I place the areatext before \startcolumnset.

Ah, thank you! But even if I put the commands before \startcolumnset, the "AdSpace" appears on the second page. While this was the intention of the example, it seems like I can’t control on which page my ads/images appear. In my actual project, all the defined columnsetareas show up on the second page (where the first columnset starts), even though all have state=stop, and never show up again where I set state=start. I wanted to use it like \define[2]\Anzeige{% \setupcolumnsetareatext[ad#1][{\externalfigure[#2][width=\overlaywidth]}] \setupcolumnsetarea[ad#1][state=start] } I also tried to just reserve the space with columnsetareas and place the ads with \setlayer; that would work if I could control the placement of the areas... Since I must complete this project within this week, I already started from scratch in my layout program (switched from my old InDesign to Affinity Publisher – much cheaper but even less fun). Seems like I overestimated ConTeXt’s (and my) readiness for this kind of layout. A pity. Greetlings, Hraban --- https://www.fiee.net http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.dreiviertelhaus.de GPG Key ID 1C9B22FD