From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Still Problems With TextBackground bottomoffset / topoffset
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:25:49 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.02.1201311922560.18404@nqv-gnoyrg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1327983515.2903.59.camel@kip-laptop>
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012, Kip Warner wrote:
> Hey Hans, Aditya, and Wolfgang,
>
> You gentlemen seem to be very knowledgeable with ConTeXt, so I will run
> a question by you that has been plaguing me for months. I am using the
> following to typeset a text box containing text.
>
> \definetextbackground[GeneralDocument][
> location=paragraph,
> color=color_text,
> background=color,
> backgroundcolor=colour_page,
> framecolor=colour_text,
> topoffset=1.0cm,
> bottomoffset=1.0cm,
> leftoffset=1.0cm,
> rightoffset=1.0cm,
> before={
> \blank[2*big]
> },
> after={
> \blank[2*big]
> },
> style=small,
> corner=round,
> frame=on]
>
> This works fine, but I still have a problem if the text box spans
> multiple pages because bottomoffset / topoffset seem to be ignored at
> the points where the page breaks. The text just goes right to the edge
> of the page top or bottom without any whitespace.
Do you have to use textbackground (assuming, of course, that you are using
MkIV)? Regular backgrounds take care of top and bottom offsets:
\definebackground
[whatever]
[topoffset=1cm,
bottomoffset=1cm,
frame=on]
\starttext
\input ward
\startwhatever
\dorecurse{6}{\input knuth \endgraf}
\stopwhatever
\input ward
\stoptext
The main advantage of textbackground is that they adapt to pararagraph
shapes (if you use things like \startplacefigure[location=left] ...
\stopplacefigure), and can be nested.
Aditya
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-01 0:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-24 2:04 TextBackground text area Kip Warner
2011-11-24 2:52 ` Aditya Mahajan
2011-11-24 7:56 ` Kip Warner
2011-11-24 23:33 ` Kip Warner
2011-11-28 2:52 ` Kip Warner
2011-12-26 6:31 ` TextBackground bottomoffset / topoffset Kip Warner
2012-01-31 4:18 ` Still Problems With " Kip Warner
2012-01-31 7:24 ` luigi scarso
2012-01-31 8:50 ` Hans Hagen
2012-01-31 23:55 ` Kip Warner
[not found] ` <CAG5iGsCtF8RfxgG+Ffb4_zRLPLx9LXMS6JogGcQWv54q+bgXXw@mail.gmail.com>
2012-02-01 7:33 ` Kip Warner
2012-02-01 0:25 ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2012-02-01 7:23 ` Kip Warner
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