#Rectangles at the edges of the paper / page

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midnight tusk
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How would it be possible to achieve this? Take a look at the picture and you can see the polygons / rectangles at the edges of the image. It would be nice to specify polygons in absolute coordinates.

hello.png
raven sail
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there are a few ways you could approach this:

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  1. use a grid: basically, give it five columns and five rows. the outermost cols/rows should have fixed width/height, the center one should fill the available space (using columns: (..., 1fr, ...) and h(1fr), respectively). then fill the correct cells with color
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  1. use polygons and move them: there are the functions rotate and place that you can use to move stuff around. define the polygon once, then use those to put four instances of it in the corners. you can use 100% as the coordinates so that you don't need to know the page width/height.
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  1. like 2, but use an SVG image that you prepare outside Typst so that you're more flexible with what you can put in the corners.
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(1 is least flexible so I probably wouldn't use it unless you know that you don't want any other shapes)

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lmk if you struggle anywhere, and I'll help you getting to your goal (absolute positioning can be somewhat tricky) 🙂

midnight tusk
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Thanks, I'll try and go with the second solution 🙂

raven sail
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maybe also worth mentioning: depending on the symmetries, scale may be better than rotate for your goal.

midnight tusk
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@raven sail So I've managed to do it :), but it seems my content is offset by some value due to the rectangles from the top and possibly on the bottom as well.

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#let global_margin = 2.5cm

#set page(margin: global_margin, paper:  "a4")

#set text(font: "New Computer Modern", weight: "regular")

#let corner(where, dx, dy, rot) = place(where, dx: dx, dy: dy, float: true,  clearance: 0pt,
rotate(rot,
polygon(
  fill: black, 
  (0.0cm, 0.0cm), 
  (1.0cm, 0.0cm), 
  (1.0cm, 0.5cm),
  (0.5cm, 0.5cm),
  (0.5cm, 1cm),
  (0cm, 1cm),
)))


#corner(top + left, -global_margin, -global_margin, 0deg)
#corner(top + right, global_margin,  -global_margin - 1cm, 90deg)
#corner(left + bottom, -global_margin, global_margin + 1cm, 270deg)
#corner(right + bottom, global_margin, global_margin, 180deg)

#rect(fill: blue, width: 100%, height: auto)[
#lorem(450)]
raven sail
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Can you use ?r so I can see your code's result here on discord?

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midnight tusk
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?render ```#let global_margin = 2.5cm

#set page(margin: global_margin, paper: "a4")

#set text(font: "New Computer Modern", weight: "regular")

#let corner(where, dx, dy, rot) = place(where, dx: dx, dy: dy, float: true, clearance: 0pt,
rotate(rot,
polygon(
fill: black,
(0.0cm, 0.0cm),
(1.0cm, 0.0cm),
(1.0cm, 0.5cm),
(0.5cm, 0.5cm),
(0.5cm, 1cm),
(0cm, 1cm),
)))

#corner(top + left, -global_margin, -global_margin, 0deg)
#corner(top + right, global_margin, -global_margin - 1cm, 90deg)
#corner(left + bottom, -global_margin, global_margin + 1cm, 270deg)
#corner(right + bottom, global_margin, global_margin, 180deg)

#rect(fill: blue, width: 100%, height: auto)[
#lorem(450)]```

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midnight tusk
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Setting float to false and tweaking the values give a better result