Re: color band

[Idris S Hamid <ishamid@lamar.colostate.edu>]

Dear gang,

Thanks for all the responses; I'll look at them closely. Still no internet
at home so I worked out a couple of  things earlier before getting to my
email. Some problems are solved, others remain. In particular, the key,
backgroundcolor=<color>, appears to be broken. Here is the relevant code for
my cover:

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%\setupoutput[pdftex] %
\definepapersize[journal][width=5.5in,
                        height=8.5in]
\setuppapersize[journal][letter]
\setuplayout[top=2cm,marking=on] %
\setuppagenumber[state=stop]

\def\ALAVIband{\midaligned{
|               \vbox{\hsize=7cm
|               \setupcolors[state=start]
|               \setupbackground[
|                                foregroundcolor=darkgreen,
|                                backgroundcolor=darkyellow
|                                ]
|               \startbackground
|               \hbox{}\vskip14pt
|               \midaligned{\tfa THE ALAVI FOUNDATION}

|               \stopbackground
|               }
|              }
|             }

\setuptoptexts[\ALAVIband]

\defineoverlay[backgr][{\externalfigure[mbor-026.eps]}]

\setupbackgrounds[page][leftedge][background=backgr,backgroundcolor=darkgreen]

\starttext

\input tufte

\stoptext
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Problems:

1. For the def. of \ALAVIband, the key, backgroundcolor=darkyellow, does not
work; I still get grey.

2. For overlay I want to something different for the front and back cover;
in the above example they are combined. Overlaying an eps appears to work as

expected. But overlaying the entire page in some color does not work at all.
Again,
the key, backgroundcolor=darkyellow, does not work;

3. Is there a way to precisely make the top of the \ALAVIband flush with the
top edge of the paper? If you change \hsize in the \vbox to 15cm, you will
see that the grey band is just higher than the crop marks.

Thanks to all for their kind help.

Best
Idris