Am 16.11.2010 um 21:06 schrieb Peter Davis:
> Is there a way to place a box at some specified x and y position on the page,
> and then typeset one or more paragraphs of text into the box? I guess I'm
> thinking of something like LaTeX's minipage, but with the ability to specify
> absolute coordinates, rather than just position relative to the current
> baseline.
Use layers (untested):
\definelayer[textbox][width=\paperwidth,height=\paperheight]
\setupbackgrounds[page][background=textbox]
\def\starttextbox
{\dosingleargument\dostarttextbox}
\def\dostarttextbox[#1]%
{\def\stoptextbox{\setlayerframed[textbox][#1]{\getbuffer[textbox]}}%
\startbuffer[textbox][starttextbox][stoptextbox]}
\starttext
\starttextbox[x=2cm,y=4cm,width=8cm,frame=off]
some text ...
more text ...
\stoptextbox
\starttextbox[x=6cm,y=12cm,width=8cm,frame=off]
another example ...
\stoptextbox
\stoptext
Wolfgang
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