Re: textbackground

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

On 2/26/2015 10:22 AM, Alan BRASLAU wrote:
> Hello,
>
> For a multilingual document, alternating one language or another, not
> necessarily a bilingual, translated text, I thought about using
> textbackground to set-off paragraphs. This technique could also apply
> to a single language text having multiple levels of information,
> perhaps statements followed by discussion, etc.
>
> A problem appears with respect to footnotes that I do not know how to
> handle. If the backgrounded text goes across pages placing footnotes,
> then the footnote also gets the background. This is incorrect, perhaps
> a bug.
>
> Second problem, if a footnote of a backgrounded text gets placed on a
> following page, then it may not get a background. (It is not clear to me
> whether it would be correct for footnotes to get the background or
> not.) Of course, a solution to this secondary problem might be
> 	before={\startlocalfootnotes},
> 	after={\placelocalfootnotes\stoplocalfootnotes},
> although such a solution would postpone backgrounded footnotes to the
> end of the backgrounded text.
>
> Alan
>
>
>
> MWE:
>
> \definetextbackground
>      [spanish]
>      [location=paragraph,
>       frame=off,
>       before={\language[es]},
>       background=color,
>       backgroundcolor=lightgray]
>
> \starttext
>
> \input darwin%
> \startfootnote
> \input dawkins
> \stopfootnote
>
> \input tufte
>
> \startspanish
> \input quevedo-es%
> \startfootnote
> \input cervantes-es
> \stopfootnote
> \stopspanish
>
> \input zapf
>
> \stoptext

\definetextbackground[en]
\definetextbackground[nl]

\setnewconstant\kindofpagetextareas 1 % low level, no high level switch 
(yet)

\starttext

     \starttextbackground[en]
         \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte \footnote{tufte} \par}
     \stoptextbackground

     \starttextbackground[nl]
         \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte \footnote{tufte} \par}
     \stoptextbackground

\stoptext


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