Re: Re: color band

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

Patrick Gundlach wrote:

> > still gives me no overlayed color.
> you have set \setupcolors[state=start] ?

That was the culprit, apparently. I defined it in my definition for the color band
but since it was grouped in that def it did not transfer. Now the original [page]
option works as expected; [text] [leftmargin] places color in the left margin. This
is the working file, if any wants to play with it:

Best wishes
Idris

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

\def\ALAVIband{\midaligned{
               \vbox{\hsize=7cm
               \setupcolors[state=start]
               \setupbackground[background=color,
                                foregroundcolor=white,
                                backgroundcolor=blue,
                                ]

               \startbackground
               \hbox{}\vskip14pt
               \midaligned{\tfa THE ALAVI FOUNDATION}

               \stopbackground
               }
              }
             }

\setuptoptexts[\ALAVIband]
\defineoverlay[backgr][{\externalfigure[elements2.eps]}]
\setupcolors[state=start]
\setupbackgrounds[page][leftmargin][background={color,backgr},
                                  backgroundcolor=green]

\starttext

\input tufte

\stoptext
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