On Wednesday 29 September 2010 10:53:38 Jan Pohanka wrote:

Hello, I wonder how to create a poster presentation using ConTeXt. It should have following layout. _____________________

| title, ... |

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| text in 3 columns | | with titles etc. |

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| acknowledgement |

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Is there any way to fix the height of the depicted areas? Now I use columnset for the main text. Maybe layers can be useful?

Below is the sort of scheme that I used about one year ago. Here, it is for A0 landscape, thus 6 columns. I also play a lot with \collectedtext I would/might do a bit better today, having learnt more about ConTeXt. Alan %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \setuppapersize[A0,landscape][A0,landscape] \setuplayout [% backspace=0.5cm, leftedge=0cm, leftedgedistance=0.5cm, leftmargin=0cm, leftmargindistance=0cm, % width=fit, % rightmargin=0cm, rightmargindistance=0.5cm, rightedge=0cm, rightedgedistance=0cm, % % topspace=0.5cm, top=0cm, topdistance=0cm, header=4cm, headerdistance=0.5cm, % height=fit, % footer=0.5em, footerdistance=0cm, bottom=0cm, bottomdistance=0cm, bottomspace=0cm, % location=singlesided] % center header \setupheadertexts[{\framed[frame=off,align=middle,height=4cm]{% {\switchtobodyfont[3cm]\bf title, ...\par} }}] % footer \setupfootertexts[{\tfxx © 2010 Alan Braslau, all rights reserved.}][{\tfxx Typeset using {\ConTeXt} mkiv.}] \defineoverlay[Koe] [{\externalfigure[cow][width=114.4cm]}] \setupbackgrounds[text][text][background=Koe] \starttext \definecolumnset[Poster][n=6] \definecolumnsetspan[Normal][n=1] \definecolumnsetspan[Double][n=2] \definecolumnsetspan[Triple][n=3] \startcolumnset[Poster] \defineparagraphs[Half][n=2,before=,after=] \defineparagraphs[Third][n=3,before=,after=] \defineparagraphs[TwoThird][n=2,before=,after=] \setupparagraphs[TwoThird][1][width=.66\textwidth] \startcolumnsetspan[Double][default=here] Here it is up to you to play\dots \stopcolumnsetspan \stopcolumnset \stoptext