Text Background

Text Background

[H. Hodges]

I can't seem to set a background on one of my paragraphs. I'm using:

\definetextbackground[intro][backgroundcolor=gray,
	location=text,color=blue]

along with 

\starttextbackground[intro]
paragraph
\stopbackgroundtext

in the body of the document.

I got the impression from one of the manuals that \setuptextbackground was only
necessary in the case of multiple \definetextbackground statements, but I tried
including it anyhow. Still, I'm getting no background whatsoever. 





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Re: Text Background

[luigi scarso]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 1:35 PM, H. Hodges <freelancer.hodges@gmail.com> wrote:
> I can't seem to set a background on one of my paragraphs. I'm using:
>
> \definetextbackground[intro][backgroundcolor=gray,
>        location=text,color=blue]
>
> along with
>
> \starttextbackground[intro]
> paragraph
> \stopbackgroundtext
^^^
\stoptextbackground

(btw, not checked)
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Re: Text Background

[H. Hodges]

luigi scarso <luigi.scarso <at> gmail.com> writes:

> \stoptextbackground
> 
> (btw, not checked)


I have \stoptextbackground in the document. I mistyped it in my question.

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Re: Text Background

[luigi scarso]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 1:56 PM, H. Hodges <freelancer.hodges@gmail.com> wrote:
this is ok (mkiv)

\definetextbackground[intro][backgroundcolor=gray,
       location=text,color=blue]

\starttext

\starttextbackground[intro]
\input knuth
\stoptextbackground
\stoptext

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Re: Text Background

[luigi scarso]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 2:06 PM, luigi scarso <luigi.scarso@gmail.com> wrote:

also with mkii, with \setupcolors[state=start]


\setupcolors[state=start]
\definetextbackground[intro][backgroundcolor=gray,
       location=text,color=blue]

\starttext

\starttextbackground[intro]
\input knuth
\stoptextbackground
\stoptext

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Re: Text Background

[H. Hodges]

luigi scarso <luigi.scarso <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 2:06 PM, luigi scarso <luigi.scarso <at> gmail.com>
wrote:
> 
> also with mkii, with \setupcolors[state=start]
> 
> \setupcolors[state=start]
> \definetextbackground[intro][backgroundcolor=gray,
>        location=text,color=blue]
> 
> \starttext
> 
> \starttextbackground[intro]
> \input knuth
> \stoptextbackground
> \stoptext
> 

Since I had to include \setupcolors, I must have mkii (I didn't know before).
Neither of your example files worked properly for me. The text was blue, but
there was no background at all. I'm going to try to figure out how to update to
mkiv, maybe it will help.



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Re: Text Background

[luigi scarso]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 2:51 PM, H. Hodges <freelancer.hodges@gmail.com> wrote:
> luigi scarso <luigi.scarso <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 2:06 PM, luigi scarso <luigi.scarso <at> gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> also with mkii, with \setupcolors[state=start]
>>
>> \setupcolors[state=start]
>> \definetextbackground[intro][backgroundcolor=gray,
>>        location=text,color=blue]
>>
>> \starttext
>>
>> \starttextbackground[intro]
>> \input knuth
>> \stoptextbackground
>> \stoptext
>>
>
> Since I had to include \setupcolors, I must have mkii (I didn't know before).
> Neither of your example files worked properly for me. The text was blue, but
> there was no background at all. I'm going to try to figure out how to update to
> mkiv, maybe it will help.
Are you using minimals (recommended) or not ?

for mkiv
$> context test.tex

for mkii
$> texexec test.tex
or
$>texmfstart texexec  test

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Re: Text Background

[H. Hodges]

luigi scarso <luigi.scarso <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Are you using minimals (recommended) or not ?
> 
> for mkiv
> $> context test.tex
> 
> for mkii
> $> texexec test.tex
> or
> $>texmfstart texexec  test
> 

I don't know what "minimals" means. I've tried both of the commands you listed
for mkii; neither gave me a background.


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Re: Text Background

[luigi scarso]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 4:21 PM, H. Hodges <freelancer.hodges@gmail.com> wrote:
> luigi scarso <luigi.scarso <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Are you using minimals (recommended) or not ?
>>
>> for mkiv
>> $> context test.tex
>>
>> for mkii
>> $> texexec test.tex
>> or
>> $>texmfstart texexec  test
>>
>
> I don't know what "minimals" means.
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals

> I've tried both of the commands you listed
> for mkii; neither gave me a background.

ok, this example must work under mkii. If not, can be a bug.

\setupcolors[state=start]
\definetextbackground[intro][backgroundcolor=gray,
       location=text,color=blue]

\starttext
\starttextbackground[intro]
\input knuth
\stoptextbackground
\stoptext



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Re: Text Background

[Martin Schröder]

2011/6/23 H. Hodges <freelancer.hodges@gmail.com>:
> I don't know what "minimals" means. I've tried both of the commands you listed

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=context+minimals&l=1

Best
   Martin
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Re: Text Background

[H. Hodges]

luigi scarso <luigi.scarso <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> ok, this example must work under mkii. If not, can be a bug.
> 
>

Still no background. I downloaded context from an Ubuntu repository, so I'm not
sure if it is a minimal package or not. Since it installed things on my path, I
assume that it isn't.



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Re: Text Background

[luigi scarso]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 4:52 PM, H. Hodges <freelancer.hodges@gmail.com> wrote:
> luigi scarso <luigi.scarso <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>>
>> ok, this example must work under mkii. If not, can be a bug.
>>
>>
>
> Still no background.
can you post the log ?

>I downloaded context from an Ubuntu repository, so I'm not
> sure if it is a minimal package or not. Since it installed things on my path, I
> assume that it isn't.
Can be: if
$>context
works than you have a mkiv. BTW, it's not the recommended way to
install a minimals, so there is no support for it.

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Re: Text Background

[H. Hodges]

luigi scarso <luigi.scarso <at> gmail.com> writes:

> can you post the log ?
> 

> Can be: if
> $>context
> works than you have a mkiv. 

The context command doesn't work at the command line. Here is the log; I'm not
sure how much of it is useful.

This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (TeX Live 2009/Debian) (format=cont-en
2011.6.20)  23 JUN 2011 16:49
entering extended mode
 %&-line parsing enabled.
 (/usr/share/texmf/web2c/natural.tcx)
**untitled-5.tex \emergencyend
(./untitled-5.tex

ConTeXt  ver: 2010.07.30 11:35 MKII  fmt: 2011.6.20  int: english/english

system          : cont-new loaded
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex
systems         : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-new.mkii))
system          : cont-fil loaded
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex
loading         : ConTeXt File Synonyms
)
system          : cont-sys.rme loaded
(/etc/texmf/tex/context/user/cont-sys.rme
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-def.mkii)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-siz.mkii)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-one.mkii))
system          : untitled-5.top loaded
(./untitled-5.top)
bodyfont        : 12pt rm is loaded
language        : patterns nl->texnansi:texnansi->1->2:2 nl->ec:ec->2->2:2 us->
ec:ec->3->2:3 de->texnansi:texnansi->4->3:3 de->ec:ec->5->3:3 da->ec:ec->6->2:2
 sv->ec:ec->7->2:2 gb->ec:ec->8->2:2 fr->texnansi:texnansi->9->2:2 fr->ec:ec->1
0->2:2 es->ec:ec->11->2:2 ca->ec:ec->12->2:2 it->texnansi:texnansi->13->2:2 it-
>ec:ec->14->2:2 la->ec:ec->15->2:2 pt->texnansi:texnansi->16->2:2 pt->ec:ec->17
->2:2 ro->ec:ec->18->2:2 pl->pl0:pl0->19->2:2 pl->ec:ec->20->2:2 pl->qx:qx->21-
>2:2 cs->il2:il2->22->2:2 cs->ec:ec->23->2:2 sk->il2:il2->24->2:2 sk->ec:ec->25
->2:2 hr->ec:ec->26->2:2 sl->ec:ec->27->2:2 tr->ec:ec->28->2:2 tk->ec:ec->29->1
:2 lt->l7x:l7x->30->2:2 agr->agr:agr->32->2:2 fi->ec:ec->33->2:2 hu->ec:ec->34-
>2:2 ru->t2a:t2a->36->2:2 uk->t2a:t2a->37->3:3 loaded
specials        : dvips loaded
\openout3 = `untitled-5.tui'.

\openout0 = `untitled-5-mpgraph.mp'.

\openout0 = `mpgraph.mp'.

systems         : system commands are disabled
language        : language en is active
specials        : loading definition file tpd
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/spec-tpd.mkii
specials        : loading definition file fdf
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/spec-fdf.mkii))
color           : mpcmyk color space is supported
color           : mpspot color space is supported
color           : system rgb is global activated
(./untitled-5.tuo) (./untitled-5.tuo) (./untitled-5.tuo) (./untitled-5.tuo)
(./untitled-5.tuo) (./untitled-5.tuo) (./untitled-5.tuo) (./untitled-5.tuo)
(./untitled-5.tuo) (./untitled-5.tuo) (./untitled-5.tuo)
publications    : file untitled-5.bbl not found, waiting for bibtex
(./untitled-5.tuo)
systems         : begin file untitled-5 at line 5
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/sample/knuth.tex))
systems         : invalid \starttext...\stoptext structure
fonts           : resetting map file list
{/usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/context/original-empty.map}
fonts           : using map file: original-base
{/usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/context/original-base.map}
fonts           : using map file: original-ams-base
{/usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/context/original-ams-base.map}
fonts           : using map file: original-public-lm
{/usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/context/original-public-lm.map}
fonts           : using map file: lm-ec
{/usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/lm/lm-ec.map}
fonts           : using map file: lm-math
{/usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/lm/lm-math.map}
fonts           : using map file: lm-rm
{/usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/lm/lm-rm.map}
fonts           : using map file: original-ams-euler
{/usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/context/original-ams-euler.map}
\openout7 = `untitled-5-mpgraph.mp'.

\openout6 = `untitled-5-mpgraph.mpb'.

runsystem(mpost  -progname=metafun -mem=metafun untitled-5-mpgraph)...disabled.


[MP untitled-5-mpgraph.1] (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/sort-def.mkii)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/sort-lan.mkii) [1.1]
systems         : end file untitled-5 at line 0
system          : cont-err loaded
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-err.tex
systems         : no file 'cont-sys.tex', using 'cont-sys.rme' instead
) 
Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:
 1049 strings out of 456094
 16422 string characters out of 533216
 4851572 words of memory out of 7259343
 41927 multiletter control sequences out of 15000+50000
 82418 words of font info for 37 fonts, out of 3000000 for 9000
 396 hyphenation exceptions out of 8191
 50i,26n,65p,244b,604s stack positions out of 5000i,500n,10000p,200000b,50000s
{/usr/share/texmf/fonts/enc/dvips/lm/lm-ec.enc}</usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1/p
ublic/lm/lmr12.pfb>

pdfTeX warning: pdftex: no GlyphToUnicode entry has been inserted yet!
utput written on untitled-5.pdf (1 page, 28554 bytes).
PDF statistics:
 13 PDF objects out of 1000 (max. 8388607)
 9 compressed objects within 1 object stream
 0 named destinations out of 1000 (max. 500000)
 1 words of extra memory for PDF output out of 10000 (max. 10000000)






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Re: Text Background

[luigi scarso]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 5:25 PM, H. Hodges <freelancer.hodges@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> runsystem(mpost  -progname=metafun -mem=metafun untitled-5-mpgraph)...disabled.
^^^
open a shell and
$> export shell_escape=true
then try again.
With shell_escape=true external commands are enabled, so by default
shell_escape is not true.

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Re: Text Background

[Aditya Mahajan]

On Thu, 23 Jun 2011, H. Hodges wrote:

> luigi scarso <luigi.scarso <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>>
>> ok, this example must work under mkii. If not, can be a bug.
>>
>>
>
> Still no background. I downloaded context from an Ubuntu repository, so I'm not
> sure if it is a minimal package or not. Since it installed things on my path, I
> assume that it isn't.

Try adding background=color key as well to setuptextbackground

Aditya
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Re: Text Background

[Laura Pamela]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 7:51 AM, H. Hodges <freelancer.hodges@gmail.com> wrote:
> luigi scarso <luigi.scarso <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 2:06 PM, luigi scarso <luigi.scarso <at> gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> also with mkii, with \setupcolors[state=start]
>>
>> \setupcolors[state=start]
>> \definetextbackground[intro][backgroundcolor=gray,
>>        location=text,color=blue]
>>
>> \starttext

try:
\runMPgraphicsfalse

With this command all is Ok here!


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