Aright, whatever, but does anybody use the positioning mechanism with
\anchor described in the Details manual?
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Peter Park Nelson
<peter.park.nel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Wolfgang Schuster
> <schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Am 02.02.2012 um 21:51 schrieb Peter Park Nelson:
>>
>>> Hi ConTeXt list,
>>>
>>> I have a document with a graphic (logo) in the upper right corner
>>> (positioned on a layer and placed as a background). To the left of
>>> this graphic are several text elements (Title, Author List, etc.) that
>>> don't go all the way across the page. (Currently I have wrapped them
>>> in \startnarrower...\stopnarrower -- is there a better way?) But this
>>> is followed by an Abstract paragraph that uses the full width of the
>>> page.
>>>
>>> I would like to ensure that the full-width text never starts high
>>> enough on the page that it encroaches on the upper-right-corner
>>> graphic. So, I'm looking for a way to protect the graphic, or to force
>>> the Abstract to start a minimum distance from the top of the page.
>>>
>>> The Abstract can be forced down the page if necessary by manually
>>> inserting a \godown[] command before it, but I would prefer a
>>> programmatic solution.
>>>
>>> Floating the graphic and wrapping text around it does not seem like a
>>> good option, because I want to ensure that its position is absolute
>>> and it never moves. Also, the Abstract needs to be full-width
>>> throughout, so I need to force it to start after the graphic rather
>>> than partially wrapping it.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions appreciated…
>>
>> You can use something like the following code but without a example from you
>> it’s difficult to give a answer.
>>
>> \showframe[text][text]
>>
>> \starttext
>>
>> \maxaligned\bgroup
>>
>> \startframed[frame=off,location=top,width=10cm,align=flushleft]%
>> line 1\\
>> line 2\\
>> line 3
>> \stopframed
>>
>> \hfill
>>
>> \tbox{\externalfigure[dummy][width=3cm,height=4cm]}%
>>
>> \egroup
>>
>> \input knuth
>>
>> \stoptext
>>
>> Wolfgang
>>
>> ___________________________________________________________________________________
>
> Here's a minimal example of what I'm talking about.
>
> I would like the Abstract to not start until it will be clear of the
> logo graphic on the right side.
>
> In the real document, I cannot be sure how much vertical space will
> taken up by text items (Authors, subtitle, etc.) between the Title and
> the Abstract, hence my question.
>
> Maybe I am thinking about this in the wrong way and there is a
> different approach? I have more of a DTP background.
>
> %%---start example -----------------------%%
>
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> %% PAGE LAYOUT
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>
> \setuppapersize[letter][letter]
>
> \setuplayout
> [width=middle,
> backspace=15mm,
> topspace=10mm,
> height=254mm,
> header=5mm,
> headerdistance=3mm,
> footer=5mm,
> footerdistance=3mm,
> grid=yes]
>
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> %%%%% LOGO ON FIRST PAGE:
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>
> \useexternalfigure[logo][dummy][type=pdf,width=35mm,height=50mm]
>
> \definelayer
> [logo-layer]
> [width=\paperwidth,height=\paperheight]
>
> \setlayer
> [logo-layer]
> [preset=righttop,hoffset=15mm,voffset=10mm]
> {\externalfigure[logo]}
>
> \setupbackgrounds[page][background={logo-layer}]
>
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> %% HEADS
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>
> \setuphead[title]
> [header=high,
> footer=high,
> grid={page},
> width=140mm,
> textstyle=\tfc\ss\bf]
>
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> %% ARTICLE ABSTRACT
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>
> \definedescription[Abstract][%
> location=serried,
> width=broad,
> text={Abstract},
> indentnext=no]%,
>
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> %% ARTICLE TEXT
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> \starttext
>
> \title{The title of this article wraps at 140 mm so it doesn't hit the logo}
>
> % A VARIABLE NUMBER OF TEXT ITEMS WILL BE PLACED HERE...
>
> % \godown[3cm] % UNCOMMENT TO FORCE THE ABSTRACT BELOW THE LOGO
>
> \startAbstract
> But the abstract can continue all the way across the page...\input tufte\par
> \stopAbstract
>
> \stoptext
>
> %%------- end example --------------%
>
> --
> Peter Park Nelson
> peter.park.nel...@gmail.com
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Peter Park Nelson
peter.park.nel...@gmail.com
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