From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/31698 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Aditya Mahajan Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: overlay page background missing Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 21:36:29 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: 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 1162521415 25206 80.91.229.2 (3 Nov 2006 02:36:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 02:36:55 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Nov 03 03:36:51 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 1GfovE-000393-KZ for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Nov 2006 03:36:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 033971FF4F; Fri, 3 Nov 2006 03:36:44 +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 08874-02; Fri, 3 Nov 2006 03:36:37 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5641D1FF49; Fri, 3 Nov 2006 03:36:37 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC6541FF4A for ; Fri, 3 Nov 2006 03:36:35 +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 09108-01 for ; Fri, 3 Nov 2006 03:36:31 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from hellskitchen.mr.itd.umich.edu (smtp.mail.umich.edu [141.211.14.82]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 4DE6C1FF42 for ; Fri, 3 Nov 2006 03:36:31 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: FROM aditya.annarb01.mi.comcast.net (c-68-40-50-205.hsd1.mi.comcast.net [68.40.50.205]) BY hellskitchen.mr.itd.umich.edu ID 454AAB2D.92B79.2637 ; 2 Nov 2006 21:36:29 -0500 Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: 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:31698 Archived-At: 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? draw \sometxt{\red{forever}} ; should work. 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. Aditya