From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Subject: Re: colored box background
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:07:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44B76CC5.50208@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <315181E1-A702-421B-A167-856FB31413C5@science.uva.nl>
Hans van der Meer wrote:
> Say I have a box, e.g. \setbox\thebox=\vbox{....} with dimensions
> \wd\thebox etc.
> What then is the most efficient and economic (in terms of complexity
> and speed) way to generate a colored background for it?�
> I know I can use \framed, but this I wish to avoid because it seems
> overly complex for this simple task and may have side effects in terms
> of alignment issues.
> Is the best perhaps using a metapost graphic? and if so, what is best
> MPgraphic, useMPgraphic, reuseMPgraphic, etc.?
\backgroundline[red]{...}
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-14 10:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-14 8:55 Hans van der Meer
2006-07-14 9:49 ` Taco Hoekwater
2006-07-14 10:07 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2006-07-14 10:13 ` Taco Hoekwater
2006-07-14 10:24 ` luigi scarso
2006-07-14 10:33 ` Hans van der Meer
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