Re: textbackground

[Hans Hagen Outside <pragma@wxs.nl>]

dr. Hans van der Meer wrote:

> Hans,
>
> I definitely see problems  with the 
> \starttextbackground[]-\stoptextbackground environment (discussed in 
> the "displays"-brochure).
>
> When the textbackground falls at a page crossing -- i.e. starts at the 
> top of a page -- the coloring extends backwards on the page just left.
> It can be remedied by putting a \null just in front of 
> \starttextbackground. The extra vertical space this introduces just 
> manages to constrain the background to its own page. However, this is 
> not a general solution, on other places the extra vertical space is 
> certainly not wanted.
>
> I cannot find the exact nature of the problem. I suspect it has to do 
> with the \output-routines, but these are not my speciality, to say the 
> least. So, not much help there,
>
> Also, the \starttextbackground does not respect footnotes, these are 
> colored. In contrast, the old \startbackground-\stopbackground does 
> respect footnotes. The coloring stops at the footnote and restarts at 
> the next page. I should like that for \starttextbackground as well.

can you make me a minimal example of where things go wrong (keep in mind that there are two methods, tex and paragraph) 

with respect to footnotes, maybe i can make that an option (there are more exceptions) 

Hans 

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