Eric Schendel wrote:
> 
> What is a good way to go about highlighting text with a grey color (or
> anyother color)?  I found shade.sty and \colorbox{color}{text} but neither
> allows a good way for handling paragraphs because the text won't wrap on
> long lines, or maybe I just don't know how to cause a newline within the
> text.  I am fairly new to lyx and help would be much appreciated.

it's the same for any box, when you want to enable linebreaks:

\colorbox{lightgray}{\parbox{\columnwidth}{
... the bla bla bla text ....
}}

for \columwidth you can choose any other value

Herbert

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