Re: background offsets

[Jens-Uwe Morawski <morawski@gmx.net>]

On Fri, 27 Sep 2002 11:04:44 +0200
Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:

> At 01:18 PM 9/24/2002 +0200, Jens-Uwe Morawski wrote:
> 
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >for a screen-document i draw an overlay under the text-area.
> >The overlay is a simple MP-figure:
> >
> >fill unitsquare yxscaled(\overlaywidth+6pt,\overlayheight+6pt)
> >         withcolor transparent (1,0.7,white)
> 
> fill unitsquare xyscaled(OverlayWidth,OverlayHeight) enlarged 6pt ;

ahh, so many MetaFun commands i don't know about :)

BTW, i've tried hyperpath, hyperlink but it corrupts my PDF file.
Have you used it successfully?

> >This overlay is centered under the text-area giving a 3pt offset
> >to every side.
> 
> so it's under the text, then why is it transparent?

because it looks nice -) Using a transparent white text background
on top of a colored page background gives a not totally white
background for the text. Thus there is enough contrast for the
text but it looks not that flashy.

> >I would prefer to specify the offset in the \setupbackgrounds
> >command:
> >\setupbackgrounds[text][text][offset=3pt,background=<overlay-name>]
> 
> backgroundoffset=3pt

in the MetaFun manual is written that offset applies to both frame
 _and_ background. Thus i thought using offset would be enough.

Thanks.

Jens