On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 17:51:14 -0400 John Culleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A project specifies that for the cover of a brochure there be a photograph as > the background (doable in Context), and semi-transparent rectangles across > the page highlighting the various strings of text. The rectangles darken but > do not completely block out the underlying illustration. It is a layer > cake, a photo, with semi-transparent rectangles laid across it, and type > within the rectangles. > > This is a job more easily done in Gimp etc. but my question is, can it be > done > in Context at all? How do I create the semi-transparent elements? Hi John, you can define a color for the transparent background of the text and place it with the cover text at the background. \setupcolors[state=start] \setupexternalfigures[location=global] \definecolor[coverred][r=1,a=1,t=.5] \defineoverlay[coverimage][\overlayfigure{mill}] \definelayer [covertitle] [width=\paperwidth, height=\paperheight] \setlayerframed [covertitle] [hoffset=0cm, voffset=8cm] [frame=off, width=\paperwidth, height=6cm, background=color, backgroundcolor=coverred, align={middle,lohi}] {\tfd Cover Text} \starttext \setupbackgrounds[page][background={coverimage,covertitle}] \startstandardmakeup \stopstandardmakeup \stoptext Wolfgang ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________