Command/defineplacement

\defineplacement

Summary

The command \defineplacement defines placement instances.

Settings

\defineplacement[...][...][...=...,...]
[...]	name
[...]	name
...=...,...	inherits from \setupplacement

Description

The command \defineplacement defines placement instances as well as their environment form startplacement.

Bug report: the definition for startplacement gets lost somewhere during generation of the command list. It is present in context-en.xml (See: Bug List)

Bug report: the source file is pack-mis.mkvi, not pack-mis.mkiv (See: Bug List)

Examples

Example 1

• \setuppapersize[A7,landscape]
  \setuplayout[grid=on]
  \showgrid
  \starttext
  \defineplacement[upped][grid=line]
  
  \input zapf
  
  \kern 3pt % force nongrid
  this is off
  
  \placeupped{but this is not}
  
  Text continues here
  \stoptext
  

• 

Notes

• By Taco on 2020-09-11T22:26:11+0200:

The grid option was broken in the ConTeXt 2020.06.30 LMTX on the wiki, resulting in a non-corrected placement. This was fixed soon after.

See also

• \setupplacement
• pack-mis.mkiv
• pack-mis.mkvi

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