From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/6106 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Giuseppe Bilotta Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Columns AND background Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 22:28:37 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <7440531390.20011112222837@bigfoot.com> Reply-To: Giuseppe Bilotta NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035396653 7464 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:10:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:10:53 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:6106 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:6106 Hello, I would like to be able to obtain balanced columns with a gray background. If I use the background option in the startcolumns command I do get a background for each column, but there is an annoying (for me) gray space in the space left between the column. Even setting distance=0pt doesn't help here. (BTW, there is an error in TeXShow, because option=background and option=none|empty are listed separately) If OTOH I use startcolumns inside a vbox inside a framed, columns don't get balanced, even if I set balance=yes. I noticed that the vbox is enough to cancel the balancing. But it's needed if I must use the framed. Any ideas? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta