From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/31708 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Mojca Miklavec" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: overlay page background missing Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 17:45:50 +0100 Message-ID: <6faad9f00611030845w6348b5d5ta431da7faffa7d4f@mail.gmail.com> References: <6faad9f00611020915yb938e98gb637871dd897337a@mail.gmail.com> <6faad9f00611020953r48eedeb6k51011810e76fd602@mail.gmail.com> <6faad9f00611021041l7a91b6c5i5b2e31977bd56865@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1162572459 16996 80.91.229.2 (3 Nov 2006 16:47:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 16:47:39 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Nov 03 17:47:33 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gg2BD-0004zM-Qu for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Nov 2006 17:46:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41DD41FF77; Fri, 3 Nov 2006 17:46:07 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 14884-02; Fri, 3 Nov 2006 17:45:59 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1A381FF7A; Fri, 3 Nov 2006 17:45:58 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 118731FF7D for ; Fri, 3 Nov 2006 17:45:57 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 14858-02 for ; Fri, 3 Nov 2006 17:45:52 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.186]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 08F0B1FF77 for ; Fri, 3 Nov 2006 17:45:51 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id x29so1374624nfb for ; Fri, 03 Nov 2006 08:45:51 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.82.98.13 with SMTP id v13mr817037bub.1162572351238; Fri, 03 Nov 2006 08:45:51 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.82.138.15 with HTTP; Fri, 3 Nov 2006 08:45:50 -0800 (PST) Original-To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:31708 Archived-At: On 11/3/06, Aditya Mahajan wrote: > On Thu, 2 Nov 2006, Paul Jones wrote: > > > > On 11/2/06, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > >> > >> % "draw \sometxt{forever} withcolor red" is broken at the moment, > >> % but used to/should(?) work otherwise > >> > > > > Thanks for the hint. I don't know anything about mp. Is there a > > replacement for the broken draw \sometxt? Well ... I meant "broken" in the sense that "draw \sometxt{this} withcolor red" is black instead of being red, but it should work unless your ConTeXt distribution is too old. > draw \sometxt{\red{forever}} ; > > should work. True. > Now on a question of my own, is it possible to redefine \sometxt so > that > > \sometxt{abc} > > is equivalent to > > \sometxt{\mymacro{abc}} > > I find myself writing a lot of code like this > > label.top(\sometxt{\parbox{A long label}}, z1 ) ; > > This is really low priority, but something like this will be nice to > have. Here's my vote as well. I would also like to have a mechanism which would enable easier definition of commands to be processed with \sometxt at the end. (I used some very dirty macros which redefined \sometxt temporary for that purpose, but that's far from ideal.) Mojca