Re[2]: Columns AND background

[Giuseppe Bilotta <bourbaki@bigfoot.com>]

Tuesday, November 13, 2001 Hans Hagen wrote:

HH> At 10:28 PM 11/12/2001 +0100, you wrote:
>>Hello,
>>
>>I would like to be able to obtain balanced columns with a gray
>>background.
>>
>>If I use the background option in the startcolumns command I do
>>get a background for each column, but there is an annoying (for
>>me) gray space in the space left between the column. Even setting
>>distance=0pt doesn't help here. (BTW, there is an error in
>>TeXShow, because option=background and option=none|empty are
>>listed separately)
>>
>>If OTOH I use startcolumns inside a vbox inside a framed, columns
>>don't get balanced, even if I set balance=yes. I noticed that the
>>vbox is enough to cancel the balancing. But it's needed if I must
>>use the framed.
>>
>>Any ideas?

HH> You don't want to know this, do you?

Reading the solution, no! :-)

HH> \definetextbackground[gb][state=start]
HH> \definetextbackground[bg][state=start,backgroundcolor=red]
HH> \definetextbackground[gg][state=start,backgroundcolor=green]

HH> \starttextbackground[gb]

[snip]

HH> \stoptextbackground

HH> \stoptext

Thanks.

HH> If I have time i will see if i can make backgrounds support columns, but 
HH> this is not trivial (something is already build into the column set 
HH> mechanism).

Oh, this is enough already (at least by now ...)

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Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta