From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/39374 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Aditya Mahajan Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Background color spaning columns. Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 17:41:37 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: References: <200803031320.22666.bntgcontext@wiseguysweb.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1204584133 29993 80.91.229.12 (3 Mar 2008 22:42:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 22:42:13 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Mar 03 23:42:39 2008 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 lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JWJMk-0000V2-MT for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2008 23:42:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FD261FBE8; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 23:41:58 +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 12679-04-2; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 23:41:14 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 324B21FB7F; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 23:41:11 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9D431FB74 for ; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 23:41:06 +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 10328-02-8 for ; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 23:40:31 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from skycaptain.mr.itd.umich.edu (smtp.mail.umich.edu [141.211.93.160]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEF961FB8F for ; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 23:40:30 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: FROM udhcp-wlan137.public.engin.umich.edu (udhcp-wlan137.public.engin.umich.edu [141.213.120.147]) BY skycaptain.mr.itd.umich.edu ID 47CC7E5B.642CA.19585 ; 3 Mar 2008 17:40:27 -0500 In-Reply-To: <200803031320.22666.bntgcontext@wiseguysweb.com> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (DEB 882 2007-12-20) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 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:39374 Archived-At: On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Bart Wise wrote: > I am trying change the background color of some text. It works fine if I am > using one column. It also works fine if I am using multiple columns, but > restricting my background color changes to only a single line of text in a > column. I have encountered this problem in the past. This is a limitations of the simple column mechanism. > However, if I have a section that I want to I change, and that section spans > more than one line in a given column it does not work. What happens is that > the background starts to change where you have indicated; however, instead of > stopping at the end of the column, the background color changes for the > entire text. See the subject entitled "Problem 1" below for an example. Is > there a fix for this (and no, using a single column is not a solution.) Use columnsets. They are not as easy and simple as columns, but they provide a lot more features. See the columnset manual for details about using them. Aditya ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________