\startbackground and verbatims

[Gilbert van den Dobbelsteen <GILBERT@login.iaf.nl>]

Hi there,

I am having some difficulties with colored backgrounds and verbatim 
like stuff.

I am sorry, the interface is dutch, so all goreign people will probably 
have some trouble reading the source. 

The trouble is the backgrounds, they seem to go beyond the page 
definition. Is there something I can do about that? Perhaps 
with \startregelcorectie or something like that?

I noticed that behaviour before, but on a A4 page it is usually not a 
problem. But this is a interactive layou, where there is not much space 
available on a page. And since the page has colors too, it is pretty 
obvious that backgrounds go beyond the boundaries.

So please, offend me, I am probably doing everything wrong here.

I also have another problem, with huge butons: I need to create a 
button which is large and contains multiple lines of text (The 
\startposter should do that). I am not very interested in high-lighting 
each word, just highlighting the entire block of text will suffice. Can 
any picture be the background of any macro where achtergrond=xxx is 
available?

%!&cont-nl

% From TeX by Topic:
{\catcode`\^^M=13 %
 \gdef\olines{\catcode`\^^M=13 \def^^M{\par\leavevmode}}%
}

\def\startposter#1{\startachtergrond\bgroup\olines}
\def\stopposter{\egroup\stopachtergrond\blanko[2*groot}

\starttekst

\startposter{external}
Hi there, this is some poster-text
\stopposter

...etcetera (more start/stop poster stuff)

\stoptekst

Gilbert.