From: Alan Braslau <braslau.list@comcast.net>
To: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Background under bibliography (like in mkiv-publications.pdf)
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2019 12:37:05 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190318123705.2949e561@comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.YAK.7.76.44.1903181411511.12837@ervasbepr.pvz.zptvyy.pn>
On Mon, 18 Mar 2019 14:15:10 -0400 (EDT)
Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Mar 2019, Romain Diss wrote:
>
> > Le 13/03/2019, Aditya Mahajan a �crit
> >> > Is there a simple way to split a large \startframedtext environment over
> >> > multiple pages. It doesn't work out of the box and I didn't find any
> >> > option make it work in the wiki nor in the documentation I read.
> >>
> >> Use backgrounds or textbackgrounds.
> > Thank you but I still can't achieve what I want to do whith this
> > command.
> >
> > I try to make something similar to the frames in the
> > "mkiv-publications.pdf" manual (page 6 or 22 for a bibliography for
> > examples).
> > I suppose Hans Hagen made use of metafun to do it but I encounter some
> > problems with 'textbackgrounds'.
> >
> > In this minimal example, the frame doesn't appear (or if i set
> > [frame=on,leftframe=off] all the frame is rendered) and the left and
> > right offsets are not took into account.
>
> textbackground uses metapost for ALL backgrounds and the default metapost
> code to draw the background (draw_multi_pars, defined in mp-abck.mkiv)
> doesn't handle individual frames. So, you have to write your own metapost
> code to draw the side bar.
>
> Another option for simple backgrounds is to use `\definebackground`
> instead of `definetextbackground`. The background mechanism doesn't have
> too many options, but does honor leftframe and rightframe by default.
>
> Aditya
You can look under
doc/context/sources/general/manuals/publications/publications-style.tex
to see how it is done.
Alan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-18 18:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-13 22:58 Framed text split over multiple pages Romain Diss
2019-03-14 0:23 ` Aditya Mahajan
2019-03-18 15:03 ` Background under bibliography (like in mkiv-publications.pdf) Romain Diss
2019-03-18 18:15 ` Aditya Mahajan
2019-03-18 18:37 ` Alan Braslau [this message]
2019-03-18 20:41 ` Romain Diss
2019-03-18 20:45 ` Romain Diss
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