Re: [NTG-context] absolute positioning of figures

2006-10-13 Thread andrea valle
On 13 Oct 2006, at 00:00, Hans Hagen wrote: indeed, layers put in overlays (there can be many layers on top of each others Now, I tried with overlays and layers. That's fine. In any case, in a second approach I simply used \setlayer to fill repeatedly the same layer. The result

Re: [NTG-context] absolute positioning of figures

2006-10-13 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Andrea, andrea valle wrote: On 13 Oct 2006, at 00:00, Hans Hagen wrote: indeed, layers put in overlays (there can be many layers on top of each others Now, I tried with overlays and layers. That's fine. In any case, in a second approach I simply used \setlayer to fill

Re: [NTG-context] absolute positioning of figures

2006-10-13 Thread andrea valle
Hi Peter, Using different layers, you can change the order of appearance (background={1,2,3}|{1,3,2},..) for the layer content. Using only one layer, all layer content is placed stack like; the printing order is then fixed by the appearance order in the document (last overprints prior).

Re: [NTG-context] absolute positioning of figures

2006-10-13 Thread Hans Hagen
andrea valle wrote: Hi Peter, Using different layers, you can change the order of appearance (background={1,2,3}|{1,3,2},..) for the layer content. Using only one layer, all layer content is placed stack like; the printing order is then fixed by the appearance order in the document

Re: [NTG-context] absolute positioning of figures

2006-10-13 Thread andrea valle
Example: \definelayer[layer2a][width=.15\paperwidth] \setlayer [layer2a] [x=.15\paperwidth, y=.5\paperheight] {\externalfigure[layTest][width=.75\paperwidth]} I was expecting to have the layTest figure cut after its width exceeds the layer's width.

Re: [NTG-context] absolute positioning of figures

2006-10-13 Thread Peter Rolf
andrea valle wrote: Example: \definelayer[layer2a][width=.15\paperwidth] \setlayer [layer2a] [x=.15\paperwidth, y=.5\paperheight] {\externalfigure[layTest][width=.75\paperwidth]} extend your example with

[NTG-context] absolute positioning of figures

2006-10-12 Thread andrea valle
Hi to all, In case of presentations sometimes one has to combine many figures in the page, maybe overlapping for some parts. Something very easy in powerpoint. What's the best technique? Taking a look at the wiki and ot It's in the details manual it seems that layers, which can be placed

Re: [NTG-context] absolute positioning of figures

2006-10-12 Thread Hans Hagen
andrea valle wrote: Hi to all, In case of presentations sometimes one has to combine many figures in the page, maybe overlapping for some parts. Something very easy in powerpoint. What's the best technique? Taking a look at the wiki and ot It's in the details manual it seems that

Re: [NTG-context] absolute positioning of figures

2006-10-12 Thread andrea valle
(Thanks Hans) On 13 Oct 2006, at 00:00, Hans Hagen wrote: indeed, layers put in overlays (there can be many layers on top of each others Uhm, I don't think I understood. In wiki layers are, in some way, opposite to overlay. How do I put a layer in an overlay? Could you post an essential