Re: framed text over multiple pages

[Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 19:23, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Aug 2010, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to find the command (in manual, wiki or mailing list) that
>> enables using background behind text spanning over multiple pages.
>
> Hey, you are getting rusty :-)

I am. In past I used to spend much longer solving ConTeXt-related
issues than writing reports which turned out to be a very bad strategy
for the sake of writing speed. On top of that, I didn't manage to
follow the MKIV development anywhere closely ... and this is
definitely one of areas where much more is possible in MKIV than it
used to be possible in MKII.

If I spend too much time solving ConTeXt-related issues this week, I
will run out of time and won't be able to go to the ConTeXt conference
... :) :) :) I don't want to repeat the history this month.

>> At the moment I have
>>
>> \startframedtext
>>  [width=\textwidth,
>>  background=color,
>>  backgroundcolor=mycolor1,
>>  frame=off,
>>  leftframe=on,
>>  framecolor=mycolor2]
>>
>> but I remember that there used to be a command that allowed doing the
>> same, but spanning the text over multiple pages.
>
> backgrounds and textbackgrounds. IIRC, they are documented in the details
> manual.

Oh, sure, thanks a lot. However ... \definetextbackground doesn't seem
to support leftframe=on. That means that I need to use metapost to
draw it ... (or just continue searching) ... or even better ... ignore
my idea to draw the left frame and just continue writing ...

Thanks,
    Mojca
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