Re[2]: Backgrounds

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 07:52 PM 3/24/2003 +0100, you wrote:

>Actually I did have a look at it (assuming you're talking about
>textbackgrounds), but I found their behaviour to be rather
>different from that of backgrounds even when location=paragraph.
>For example, setting frame=on doesn't give me a frame, and it
>doesn't seem to support rounded corners for neither the background
>nor the frame. Also, setting a largish offset "covers" the text
>that precedes the background, and this isn't nice at all. I think
>that textbackgrounds and backgrounds serve different purpouses.
>
>And what about the other requests? (Behaviour at splits, different
>corner styles)

\starttext

\setupcolors[state=start]

\definetextbackground[gb][state=start]

\startuseMPgraphic{mpos:par:columnset}
   for i := 1 upto nofmultipars :
     fill multipars[i] enlarged 5pt cornered 5pt withcolor green ;
     draw multipars[i] enlarged 5pt cornered 5pt withcolor red ;
   endfor ;
\stopuseMPgraphic

\input tufte \blank
\starttextbackground[gb]
\dorecurse{10}{\input tufte \par}
\stoptextbackground
\blank \input tufte

\stoptext

they split, can have corners, lay behind the text, ...

only some spacing issues need to be solved (working on that on and off)

Hans
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