Re: Page breaking problem

[nico <nicolas.marsgui@libertysurf.fr>]

On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 10:55:43 +0200, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:

> nico wrote:
>>
>> Hi Hans, since textbackground seems now the default background feature  
>> to
>> use, do you plan to fix the textbackground overlapping trouble i  
>> submitted
>> some time ago?
>>
> remind me what it was ...

In the case of mail [1] textbackground overlapped bottom footnote texts or  
top floats if the backgrounded stuff covered two pages.

You suggested to use \chardef\kindofpagetextareas\plusone to prevent from  
this behaviour. Using this setting fixed it, but introduced some kind of  
vertical stretchiness failure so that page text can overlap a bottom  
footnote text as shown in the case of mail [2].

So, both textbackground/page modes have their limitation that makes  
textbackground use not satisfying. So, it would be great if it could be  
fixed.

I haven't installed the latest context release yet, but there's the same  
behaviour with context live.

Thanks,
BG

[1]:  
http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20060523.101005.80b07059.en.html

The test case:

\definecolor[ScreenGray][s=.95]
\definetextbackground[grayback]
      [background=color,
       backgroundcolor=ScreenGray,
       frame=on,
       strut=yes,
       width=broad,
       location=paragraph,
       framecolor=ScreenGray,
       leftoffset=\topskipgap,
       before=\blank,
       after=\blank,
       align=right]

\starttext

A footnote\footnote{Covered by the background, right?}.
\input tufte
\input tufte
\input tufte
\input tufte

\starttextbackground[grayback]
\input tufte
\stoptextbackground

\stoptext

[2]:  
http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20060524.162941.8a054666.en.html

The test case:

\chardef\kindofpagetextareas\plusone
\setupcolors[state=start]
\setupwhitespace[medium]

% needed to activate the buggy stuff...
\definetextbackground[listing][background=color]

\starttext

\input tufte\footnote{A footnote}

blah

blah

blah

blah

blah

\section{Section}
\input tufte

blah

blah

\startitemize
\item a
\item a
\item a
\item a
\item a
\item a
\stopitemize

\stoptext