Tuesday, November 13, 2001 Hans Hagen wrote:
HH> At 10:28 PM 11/12/2001 +0100, you wrote: >>Hello, >> >>I would like to be able to obtain balanced columns with a gray >>background. >> >>If I use the background option in the startcolumns command I do >>get a background for each column, but there is an annoying (for >>me) gray space in the space left between the column. Even setting >>distance=0pt doesn't help here. (BTW, there is an error in >>TeXShow, because option=background and option=none|empty are >>listed separately) >> >>If OTOH I use startcolumns inside a vbox inside a framed, columns >>don't get balanced, even if I set balance=yes. I noticed that the >>vbox is enough to cancel the balancing. But it's needed if I must >>use the framed. >> >>Any ideas? HH> You don't want to know this, do you? Reading the solution, no! :-) HH> \definetextbackground[gb][state=start] HH> \definetextbackground[bg][state=start,backgroundcolor=red] HH> \definetextbackground[gg][state=start,backgroundcolor=green] HH> \starttextbackground[gb] [snip] HH> \stoptextbackground HH> \stoptext Thanks. HH> If I have time i will see if i can make backgrounds support columns, but HH> this is not trivial (something is already build into the column set HH> mechanism). Oh, this is enough already (at least by now ...) -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta
