Hi Thomas, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: > I'm trying to write a module that will mimick the behavior of crop.sty > in LaTeX (providing fancier cropmarks than the ones given by the > ConTeXt \setuplayout command). I'm done with the code for the > cropmarks, and this is working fine. Now I want to have a status line > in between the two top marks. How can I give an absolute position for a > layer that will put this line midaligned and exactly, say 0.5cm above > the level of the upper corners of the page? What I tried so far is: > \composedlayer and something like \setlayer[y=2cm] - will only be on > the first page, not repeated;
\setuplayer[LAYERNAME][repeat=yes] \setlayer[LAYERNAME][x=??, y=20mm, location=c]{your status line} x should be (CROPLeftX+CROPrightX)/2 not tested.... Greetings, Peter > \framed - I can give the frame a height like 1.3\textheight, but then > the position will not be fixed, but change with the textheight > > I guess there must be a trivial solution, but I haven't found it yet... > > Best > > Thomas > _______________________________________________ > ntg-context mailing list > ntg-context@ntg.nl > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > > _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context