On Mon, 18 Mar 2019 14:15:10 -0400 (EDT) Aditya Mahajan <adit...@umich.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Mar 2019, Romain Diss wrote: > > > Le 13/03/2019, Aditya Mahajan a �crit > >> > Is there a simple way to split a large \startframedtext environment over > >> > multiple pages. It doesn't work out of the box and I didn't find any > >> > option make it work in the wiki nor in the documentation I read. > >> > >> Use backgrounds or textbackgrounds. > > Thank you but I still can't achieve what I want to do whith this > > command. > > > > I try to make something similar to the frames in the > > "mkiv-publications.pdf" manual (page 6 or 22 for a bibliography for > > examples). > > I suppose Hans Hagen made use of metafun to do it but I encounter some > > problems with 'textbackgrounds'. > > > > In this minimal example, the frame doesn't appear (or if i set > > [frame=on,leftframe=off] all the frame is rendered) and the left and > > right offsets are not took into account. > > textbackground uses metapost for ALL backgrounds and the default metapost > code to draw the background (draw_multi_pars, defined in mp-abck.mkiv) > doesn't handle individual frames. So, you have to write your own metapost > code to draw the side bar. > > Another option for simple backgrounds is to use `\definebackground` > instead of `definetextbackground`. The background mechanism doesn't have > too many options, but does honor leftframe and rightframe by default. > > Aditya You can look under doc/context/sources/general/manuals/publications/publications-style.tex to see how it is done. Alan ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
