From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: framed text over multiple pages
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:11:57 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1008301409010.19382@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin+P7A6qxHKPffV0x54KGs3KOovED6kdX+S4F9p@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 30 Aug 2010, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> 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.
I will believe that you are writing something when I see your thesis :-) I
have heard rumours that it exists.
>>> 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 ...
Drawing a left frame using a metapost shouldn't be too hard.
draw leftboundary OverlayBox withpen pencircle scaled 1bp withcolor red ;
(or something like that).
Aditya
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-30 17:21 Mojca Miklavec
2010-08-30 17:23 ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-08-30 17:42 ` Mojca Miklavec
2010-08-30 18:11 ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2010-08-30 19:15 ` Hans Hagen
2010-08-30 19:13 ` Hans Hagen
2010-08-30 19:23 ` Hans Hagen
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