Re: Re: color band

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

Patrick Gundlach wrote:

> Idris S Hamid <ishamid@lamar.colostate.edu> writes:
>
> Hello Idris,
>
> > But what about overlays over color. They still don't work:
>
> There are two problems here. First, say background={color,backgr}
> with setupbackgrounds. But this won't help ;-) since the
> setupbackground is sometimes a bit strange (see below).
>
> I bet the leftedge is 0pt (test with showmakeup or my t-layout
> module, say \ShowModule[showmore=1]) so you won't be able to see
> anything colored.

I don't get this. My background image comes out at the center of the
page;
why doesn't the color follow suit?

Anyway,

\defineoverlay[backgr][{\externalfigure[elements2.eps]}]
\setupbackgrounds[text][leftmargin][background={color,backgr},
                                  backgroundcolor=green]

still gives me no overlayed color.

> When you use \setupbackgrounds[page]... you access the whole page
> (!). Not just any margin or textarea. So there you probably need some
> metapost hacking (easy) in order to get your green side. See the
> metafun manual or my page.pdf.

I don't know metapost (yet, its on my to-learn list); is there something
I can do to get this solved in the meantime?

Sincere Thnx to all for their help
Idris