At 06:14 PM 3/25/2003 +0100, you wrote:
Idris S Hamid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Hello Idris,

> But what about overlays over color. They still don't work:

There are two problems here. First, say background={color,backgr}
with setupbackgrounds. But this won't help ;-) since the
setupbackground is sometimes a bit strange (see below).

I bet the leftedge is 0pt (test with showmakeup or my t-layout
module, say \ShowModule[showmore=1]) so you won't be able to see
anything colored.

\setupbackgrounds[text][leftmargin][background={color,backgr},
                                  backgroundcolor=green]

When you use \setupbackgrounds[page]... you access the whole page
(!). Not just any margin or textarea. So there you probably need some
metapost hacking (easy) in order to get your green side. See the
metafun manual or my page.pdf.

it may help to know that there is a predefined path OverlayBox:


\startuniqueMPgraphic{myback}
  fill OverlayBox withcolor red ;
\stopuniqueMPgraphic

or

fill OverlayBox enlarged 2pt withcolor red (for a bleed)

or

  fill OverlayBox leftenlarged 3pt ...
  setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox

or

 StartPage ;
   ...
 StopPage ;

if needed : setbounds currentpicture to Page ;

also, you can say:

\setuplayout[clipoffset=3pt]

to get nicely clipped pages

Hans



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