Re: Re: color band

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 06:14 PM 3/25/2003 +0100, you 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.
>
>\setupbackgrounds[text][leftmargin][background={color,backgr},
>                                   backgroundcolor=green]
>
>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.

it may help to know that there is a predefined path OverlayBox:

\startuniqueMPgraphic{myback}
   fill OverlayBox withcolor red ;
\stopuniqueMPgraphic

or

   fill OverlayBox enlarged 2pt withcolor red (for a bleed)

or

   fill OverlayBox leftenlarged 3pt ...
   setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox

or

  StartPage ;
    ...
  StopPage ;

  if needed : setbounds currentpicture to Page ;

also, you can say:

   \setuplayout[clipoffset=3pt]

to get nicely clipped pages

Hans



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