On Tuesday 16 November 2010 22:16:33 Peter Davis wrote: > > Thanks! I didn't find much in the ConTeXt reference manual on this. Is > there more info somewhere? >
\position is (will be) fully documented in the updated reference manual. :) (I was not aware of positioning, either!) Again, we see that ConTeXt is quite rich, and our documentation lags far behind. As to layers, see: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Layers We also have collectors: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Collectors See also: http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/details.pdf On Wednesday 17 November 2010 09:25:23 Hans Hagen wrote: > On 17-11-2010 1:59, Martin Schröder wrote: > > 2010/11/17, Hans Hagen<pra...@wxs.nl>: > >> On 16-11-2010 9:41, Peter Münster wrote: > >>> Layers or overlays are certainly the right method. But there is also > >>> the > >> > >>> \position macro: > >> So that is still used? (If so, I should look into optimizing and cleanup > >> as it's real old code). > > > > Seems like a feature that's nice to have; it mirrors the texpos > > package for LaTeX. Please update it. > > It does not really mirrors something (so it's not something users expect > to be there I guess) ... if I remember right I made it for putting > hyperlinks on specific places as I didn't want to use pictex for that. > We have layers that provide a better mechanism. > > Anyway, it's not that much code so it can stick around (I even see a > dutch comment so it's real ancient). > > Hans Hans, 1. It would be natural to have \startframed\stopframed 2. A collector may be more natural than layers (used as a page background). (As seen through "Force ConTeXt to produce a page with „\page[empty]“ or „\dontleavehmode\page“ when you have enough material for one page or when you’re at the end of your document.") Is there any need for some helper macros, or do we simply need a few good examples? Alan ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
