From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/11654 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Patrick Gundlach Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: color band Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 23:44:28 +0100 Organization: privat Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <87vfy7yskz.fsf@gundla.ch> References: <3E7E3436.FFDE47CE@lamar.colostate.edu> <3E7CEABD.9DEBD96B@lamar.colostate.edu> <3E7E2F64.CF694C60@lamar.colostate.edu> <18016835127.20030323230952@iol.it> <3E7E3436.FFDE47CE@lamar.colostate.edu> <5.1.0.14.1.20030324102827.0320d688@server-1> <3E807645.6061EC31@lamar.colostate.edu> <87of3z1i8e.fsf@gundla.ch> <3E80D746.1E804589@lamar.colostate.edu> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1048632444 2324 80.91.224.249 (25 Mar 2003 22:47:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 22:47:24 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Tue Mar 25 23:47:23 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18xxCV-0000bL-00 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 23:47:23 +0100 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20C3F10B16; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 23:47:20 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.188]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34BE710AB6 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 23:44:46 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from [212.227.126.206] (helo=mrelayng.kundenserver.de) by moutng.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 18xxA0-0004yU-00 for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 23:44:48 +0100 Original-Received: from [129.217.137.116] (helo=levana) by mrelayng.kundenserver.de with asmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 18xx9z-0002en-00 for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 23:44:48 +0100 Original-Received: from pg by levana with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18xx9g-0000pQ-00 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 23:44:28 +0100 Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Lieblings-Musik: a.c. In-Reply-To: <3E80D746.1E804589@lamar.colostate.edu> (Idris S Hamid's message of "Tue, 25 Mar 2003 15:25:10 -0700") Original-Lines: 40 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i586-pc-linux-gnu) Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:11654 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:11654 Idris S Hamid writes: Hello Idris, > I don't get this. My background image comes out at the center of the > page; > why doesn't the color follow suit? \setupbackgrounds[page][ignored][background={color,backgr},backgroundcolor=blue] should give you a blue page with the backgr overlay. The following code should give you a white page with some text and a left green margin with "Picture" text. ================================================== \setupcolors[state=start] \defineoverlay[backgr][Picture] \setupbackgrounds[text][leftmargin][background={color,backgr}, backgroundcolor=green] \starttext Hello, Idris. \stoptext ================================================== > still gives me no overlayed color. you have set \setupcolors[state=start] ? > I don't know metapost (yet, its on my to-learn list); is there something > I can do to get this solved in the meantime? Yes: write exactly where you want which color (margin, edge, top.... ) and we provide you a simple metapost code :) Patrick