Hint for title page layout in ConteXt

Question

After reading a lot of the manuals, docs and wiki articles provided by the ConteXt developers, I still have no clue how to achieve this. I want to set up a newsletter title page. On the top it contains a graphic as title. Next follows a framed box on the left, and next to this box is a two-column article. Underneath the framed box is a small picture, and the two-column article an empty space.

[ Title Graphic ]
[Framed][ 2-col ]
[ Box  ][ umn a ]
[      ][ rticle]
        [       ]
[Pic]

With LaTeX I would use two minipages for the framed box and the article and just place the picture. \hfill and \vfill would do some adjustments.

Thanks for your help.

Answer 1

Sure, but with ConTeXt you could do the same. In fact, the first example is just a sum of my mistakes, before I realized, that a TABLE can be used to accomplish what you want.

\def\framedbox#1#2
{\hbox to 2em\bgroup
\setupframed[height=10cm,width=3cm,framed=off]
\framed[width=2cm,align=left]{#1}
\egroup} 

\setupcolumns[n=2,]
\starttext
\title{\hfil A test}
\framedbox{}
\vskip -4in 
\hskip 2.5cm{\lbox to 2.5cm{
        \bTABLE
        \setupTABLE[,2,3][frame=off, distance=4pt,align=vfil]
\bTR \bTD \input zapf \eTD \eTR 
    \bTD \input zapf \par \input linden \eTD \eTR 
    \bTD \input tufte \eTD \eTR
\eTABLE
}} 
\stoptext

And here is the almost-complete example. Just change some of the values accordingly please.

\setuplayout[width=130mm,]

\def\framedbox#1#2
{\hbox to 1em\bgroup
\setupframed[height=10cm,width=4cm,framed=off]
\framed[width=4cm,align=left]{#1}
\egroup}

\setuppagenumbering[state=stop]
\setupcolumns[n=2,]
\starttext
\title{\hfil \externalfigure[http://tug.org/images/logobw.jpg][width=6cm]}
\framedbox{}
\vskip -4in 
\hskip 4.5cm{\rbox to 0.5cm{
        \bTABLE
        \setupTABLE[1,2][frame=off, distance=4pt,align=vfil]
\bTR \bTD \input zapf \eTD \eTR 
    \bTD \input tufte \eTD \eTR
\eTABLE


\externalfigure[context_logo.jpg]
}} 
\stoptext

Second edit

What I had in mind, was to have a TABLEhead and TABLEfoot, respectively. Not this, really, since the former would eliminate the need to specify a setup for said footer, earlier in the document.

\showframe
\starttext 

\setuplayout[footer=\textwidth]
\setuphead[chapter][header=none]
\setupfooter[chapter][]
\setupfootertexts[][{\dorecurse{8}{\framed{\externalfigure[context_logo.jpg]}}}]
\title{\dorecurse{1}{\externalfigure[mill.png][width=\textwidth,height=7cm]}}
{\lbox to 0.5cm{
        \bTABLE
        \setupTABLE[2,3][frame=off, distance=4pt,align=vfil,option=stretch] 
        \bTR \bTD \dorecurse{8}{\externalfigure[context_logo.jpg]\par} \eTD \eTR
        \bTD \dorecurse{1}{\input zapf }\eTD \eTR 
    \bTD \dorecurse{1}{\input linden }\eTD \eTR
\eTABLE
}


\framed{\dorecurse{8}{\externalfigure[context_logo.jpg]\par}
}

\input cervantes-es

\externalfigure[mill.png]
\stoptext

Answer 2

If you are willing to mark up the title page separately, here is one possibility. I change the margins of the first page, and set the frames and picture as layers.

% To visualize the page areas
% Needs to be placed on the top, because it resets the page backgrounds
\showframe

% Layout for regular pages
\setuplayout
  [
    topspace=1cm,
    backspace=1.5cm, 
    leftmargin=1cm,
    width=middle,
    height=middle,
    bottomspace=1cm,
    header=2\lineheight,
    headerdistance=2\lineheight,
    footer=2\lineheight,
  ]

\definemeasure[marginspace][0.4\paperwidth]
\definemeasure[marginwidth][0.35\paperwidth]

% Different layout for the title page:
\definelayout
  [1]
  [
    topspace=6\lineheight,
    header=\zeropoint,
    backspace=\measure{marginspace},
    leftmargin=\measure{marginwidth},
    cutspace=1.5cm,
    rightmargin=1cm,
  ]


\definelayer[titlelayer]
\definelayer[marginlayer]
\definelayer[footerlayer]

\setupbackgrounds[text][leftmargin][background=marginlayer]
\setupbackgrounds[footer][leftmargin][background=footerlayer]
\setupbackgrounds[text][background=titlelayer]


% Dummy text and figures
\usemodule[visual]
\useMPlibrary[dum]


% To make it easier to show the output on TeX.SX
\setuppapersize[A4][A3,landscape]
\setuparranging[2SIDE]


\starttext

\setlayer[marginlayer]
    {\externalfigure[marginimage]
                    [width=\measure{marginwidth}, height=12\lineheight]}

\setlayer[footerlayer]
    {\externalfigure[footerimage]
                    [width=\measure{marginwidth}, height=2\lineheight]}

\setlayer[titlelayer]
         [
           x=-\dimexpr(\measure{marginwidth}+\leftmargindistance)\relax,
           y=-4\lineheight,
         ] 
    {\externalfigure[titleimage]
                    [
                      width=\dimexpr(\measure{marginwidth}+\leftmargindistance+\textwidth)\relax, 
                      height=3\lineheight,
                    ]}

\startsimplecolumns
  \dorecurse{3}{\fakewords{120}{120}\par}
\stopsimplecolumns

\page

\dorecurse{5}{\fakewords{120}{120}\par}

\stoptext

This is how the two page spread looks like.