Backgrounds

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

Hello,

I would like to discuss a few points about backgrounds
(\startbackground ... \stopbackground).

First of all, it would be nice to have "background classes", so
that I can have different backgrounds for different things without
having to reset it each time. (Think
\definebackground[this][options=values], \setupthis, \startthis
... \stopthis, as usual.)

The second point is about the splitting capabilities in
backgrounds. This is incredibly nice to have, but needs a little
finetuning, IMO: it should be possible to specify whether the
various options that concern the "border" of the background (i.e.
background corner, frame, frame corner, etc) should act at split
time or not; example: assume that I set my background to have a
frame (frame=on) If the background gets split across pages, I get
two "boxed" text: the first in the first page, the second in the
second page. Instead, to show that the block continues on the next
page, it should be possible to turn this off. I suggest options
like: splitframe, splitframecorner, splitbackgoundcorner analogous
to topframe/bottomframe and the like, which defines the behaviour
of frames and angles in the "split area".

Moreover (now I'm getting picky, but while we're at it ...) it
would be nice, even for generic framed text, to be able to specify
the behaviour of each single corner separately (say, top left and
top right rounded, bottom left and right rectangular).

-- 
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta