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@ 2012-02-16  9:17 Hans Hagen
  2012-02-16 13:53 ` beta Otared Kavian
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From: Hans Hagen @ 2012-02-16  9:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hi,

I uploaded a beta. Apart from some fixes, the biggest change is in 
dealing with positional info and text backgrounds (first stage cleanup). 
  As I have no clue to what extend users mess around with background 
graphics themselves, it's hard to predict side effects, but the biggest 
impact is speed. The adventurous might want to try out

\setuptextbackground
   [mp=mpos:par:region,
    method=mpos:par:region]

or with some more visual tracing

\setuptextbackground
   [mp=mpos:par:region:kind,
    method=mpos:par:region]

A simple test with some 200 backgrounds brings down runtime with one 
second on my machine (not the fastest anyway).

Apart from a performance gain, backgrounds are now also supported in 
regular multicolumns as well as in some specific mechanisms like 
tabulate and xtables. In xtables one needs to set region=yes in order to 
get the desired results. Actually, the region key is a new one in framed 
so anything that can be framed can also have fancy text  backgrounds.

Yet another improvement is that (although rather untested) you can do 
things like

     \starttextbackground[r] START
     \dorecurse{10}{
         \dorecurse{1}{\input ward }
         \placefigure[right]{}{}
         some text before BEGIN \dorecurse{2}{\input ward } END some after
         \placefigure[left]{}{}
         some text before BEGIN \dorecurse{2}{\input ward } END some after
         \placefigure[right]{}{}
         some text before BEGIN \dorecurse{2}{\input ward } END some after
     }
     STOP \stoptextbackground
     \dorecurse{1}{\input ward }

and get more or less expected results. Keep in mind that it can never 
get perfect due to all kind of possible interference. Also, keep away 
from internals as they will quite certainly change.

Hans



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