On 16-11-2010 9:41, Peter Münster wrote:
On Tue, Nov 16 2010, Peter Davis wrote:
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.
Layers or overlays are certainly the right method. But there is also the
\position macro:
\setupframed[foregroundstyle=\bfc]
\setuppositioning[state=overlay, unit=cm, xoffset=0.5\textwidth,
yoffset=0.5\textheight]
\starttext
\startpositioning
\position(0,0){\framed{0,0}}
\position(-5,-5){\framed{-5,-5}}
\position(-5,5){\framed{-5,5}}
\position(5,-5){\framed{5,-5}}
\position(5,5){\framed{5,5}}
\stoppositioning
\input tufte
\input tufte
\input tufte
\input tufte
\input tufte
\stoptext
So that is still used? (If so, I should look into optimizing and cleanup
as it's real old code).
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