[cl-typesetting-devel] Laying out sub-boxes?

Peter Seibel peter at gigamonkeys.com
Wed Jun 1 04:13:45 UTC 2005


Peter Seibel <peter at gigamonkeys.com> writes:

> So to layout, say, a business card using cl-typesetting (as opposed to
> raw cl-pdf as I did before) it seems like it'd make some sense to
> generate a few different chunks of content and then place them, as a
> unit, the right places on the page. Are there any examples of this in
> test.lisp or can someone explain how I might do it.

As usual, right after I asked, I went back and figured it out, more or
less. Anyway, if anyone has any advice or examples, I'm still
interested but I did figure out you can compile different bits of text
with compile-text and then draw them with draw-block.

-Peter

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Peter Seibel                                     peter at gigamonkeys.com

         Lisp is the red pill. -- John Fraser, comp.lang.lisp



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