Re[2]: Backgrounds

[Giuseppe Bilotta <gip.bilotta@iol.it>]

Monday, March 24, 2003 Hans Hagen wrote:

HH> At 03:37 PM 3/24/2003 +0100, you (GB) wrote:
>>Hello,
>>
>>I would like to discuss a few points about backgrounds
>>(\startbackground ... \stopbackground).

HH> Got you! Did you read details.pdf? It's all in there, you can hook in your
HH> own graphics, it works with columnsets, in graphics, tables, nests quite
HH> well, is layered, classes, and more. (\startbackground will be there for
HH> old times sake).

Actually I did have a look at it (assuming you're talking about
textbackgrounds), but I found their behaviour to be rather
different from that of backgrounds even when location=paragraph.
For example, setting frame=on doesn't give me a frame, and it
doesn't seem to support rounded corners for neither the background
nor the frame. Also, setting a largish offset "covers" the text
that precedes the background, and this isn't nice at all. I think
that textbackgrounds and backgrounds serve different purpouses.

And what about the other requests? (Behaviour at splits, different
corner styles)

-- 
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta