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From: Darksair <chris.corsair@gmail.com>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Text background that spans the width of the page
Date: Wed, 7 May 2014 15:36:17 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140507193617.GA40364@Fity.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5369381C.6080904@wxs.nl>

Hi Hans,

On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 09:29:32PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 5/2/2014 5:59 PM, Darksair wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I would like to have a colored horizontal stripe as background for one
> >line of text.  Sort of like what textbackground does, but I want it to
> >span the whole \paperwidth, instead of just \textwidth.  At the end of
> >the day, I would use it to style for example my section heads, or to
> >highlight one specific \item.  What’s the best way to do it?
> 
> you can use textbackgrounds and plug in some mp code that extends into the
> margins ... it depends a bit on what 'line' means here
> 
>     \startuniqueMPgraphic{whatever}
>         fill OverlayBox
>             leftenlarged BackSpace
>             rightenlarged CutSpace
>             withcolor OverlayColor ;
>         setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox
>             enlarged max(BackSpace,CutSpace) ;
>     \stopuniqueMPgraphic
> 
>     \defineoverlay[whatever][\uniqueMPgraphic{whatever}]
> 
>     \framed
>       [background=whatever,
>        backgroundcolor=green,
>        frame=off,
>        width=\textwidth]
>       {test}%

Thank you for this interesting solution!  I didn’t know one could do
that with Metapost.  This does exactly what I want.

-- 
Darksair
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-02 15:59 Darksair
2014-05-06 19:29 ` Hans Hagen
2014-05-07 19:36   ` Darksair [this message]

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