Graphics and media/Collections of tips and tricks

• Fill patterns
• Layer sets as individual pages
• Repetition of a text element to fill a bar using textext
• Drop shadows with overlay and Metapost
• Example of photo page layout (Old Content)
• Example of speech bubble
• Fill-unfill or even-odd rule in Metafun
• MetaPost's textext function and positioning
• Pascal's triangle
• Create barcodes
• Apply shading to text
• Chromatograms with MetaPost
• Infinite paper
• Image database with XML
• How to use MetaFun to create a mp4 movie

• Use MetaPost arrays, example of Metapost / Metafun syntax with arrays of colors, strings, paths, pens and other variables.
• Dimensions and calculations for image placement: if you’re using ConTeXt for complex layout tasks, you may need to calculate with image sizes. Often it makes sense to use Lua functions.