On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 07:05:04PM +0200, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>
> Am 02.04.2009 um 18:55 schrieb Khaled Hosny:
>
>> Is there a way to typeset a paragraph with background extending only  
>> in
>> the margin?
>>
>> I used the following setup, but I don't want the background to extend 
>> in
>> the top/bottom (or at least minimize it), any ideas?
>
> Use textbackgrounds.

Thanks for he tip. However, I managed to get the desired effect by
setting a positive background offset, zero left/right offset, and
negative top offset, this worked fine foe background, but the negative
part has no effect in textbackground, any ideas?

\setupcolors[state=start]

\setupbackground
  [background=color,backgroundcolor=lightgray,
   leftoffset=0cm,rightoffset=0cm,
   backgroundoffset=.5cm,topoffset=-.3cm, % the offset works here
   frame=on]

\setuptextbackground
  [background=color,backgroundcolor=lightgray,
   leftoffset=0cm,rightoffset=0cm,
   backgroundoffset=.5cm,topoffset=-.3cm, % but not here
   frame=on]

\starttext
\startbackground
\input tufte
\stopbackground
\vfill
\starttextbackground
\input tufte
\stoptextbackground

\stoptext

Regards,
 Khaled

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 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer