[NTG-context] Colored text's background, which the more lcd-mkiv?
[Colored text's background, which the more lcd-mkiv?;
plus: Metapost variable text with \definetextbackground;
plus: {\input ward}]
Hi list,
What would be the best, also the more up to date, way to put colored
background behind text, that could cross page boundaries.
I have found three ways of doing this: I would like to know which is
best practice, and also the more lua context document fashion.
1- Using \startbar[underbar] \input zapf \stopbar as described p. 39
of hybrid.pdf.
2- Using \startMPpositionmethod{mpos:placeholder}, found in
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/125162/rounded-box-around-placeholder-text-that-supports-line-breaking/125323
(Thanks to Aditya).
A bit tricky, but perhaps the more versatile or universal?
3- Start with: \definetextbackground (same ref. as previous).
%
% About the third one I have had some difficulties, that might be
thought of as a bug.
% You might want and try the following example: it doesn't work if you
have a MetaPost variable
% whose name is text.
\starttext
\startMPcode
% numeric text; %% Try and uncomment this line
drawarrow (0,0)--(3cm,1cm);
\stopMPcode
%%%
\definecolor [lightblue] [r=0.5, g=0.5, b=1]
\definetextbackground
[placeholder]
[
location=text,
background=color,
backgroundcolor=lightblue,
frame=on,
corner=round,
radius=0.8\lineheight,
]
\placeholder{\input ward }
% \placeholder{\input ward} %% Try and uncomment this line
\stoptext
% Local Variables:
% mode: context
% coding: utf-8
% End:
Regards,
Chris
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Re: [NTG-context] Colored text's background, which the more lcd-mkiv?
On Fri, 17 Jan 2014, Elspeth McGullicuddy wrote:
[Colored text's background, which the more lcd-mkiv?;
plus: Metapost variable text with \definetextbackground;
plus: {\input ward}]
Hi list,
What would be the best, also the more up to date, way to put colored
background behind text, that could cross page boundaries.
I have found three ways of doing this: I would like to know which is
best practice, and also the more lua context document fashion.
1- Using \startbar[underbar] \input zapf \stopbar as described p. 39
of hybrid.pdf.
Use this one, unless the underbars are indequate, as was the case for the
OP of the TeX.SX question.
2- Using \startMPpositionmethod{mpos:placeholder}, found in
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/125162/rounded-box-around-placeholder-text-that-supports-line-breaking/125323
(Thanks to Aditya).
A bit tricky, but perhaps the more versatile or universal?
3- Start with: \definetextbackground (same ref. as previous).
%
% About the third one I have had some difficulties, that might be
thought of as a bug.
% You might want and try the following example: it doesn't work if you
have a MetaPost variable
% whose name is text.
(Untested). Normally this means that there is already a variable with the
name text. You can use:
save text; numeric text;
or
newnumeric text;
which is shortcut for the former.
Aditya
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Re: [NTG-context] Colored text's background, which the more lcd-mkiv?
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 6:16 PM, Aditya Mahajan adit...@umich.edu wrote:
On Fri, 17 Jan 2014, Elspeth McGullicuddy wrote:
[Colored text's background, which the more lcd-mkiv?;
plus: Metapost variable text with \definetextbackground;
plus: {\input ward}]
Hi list,
What would be the best, also the more up to date, way to put colored
background behind text, that could cross page boundaries.
I have found three ways of doing this: I would like to know which is
best practice, and also the more lua context document fashion.
1- Using \startbar[underbar] \input zapf \stopbar as described p. 39
of hybrid.pdf.
Use this one, unless the underbars are indequate, as was the case for the OP
of the TeX.SX question.
This one is very easy to use, but I liked the rounded corners of the example.
Also I want it to fill the whole background, as it is the case with
\definetextbackground: it starts where you tell it to start, then fill
the whole text area, not only where there actually are glyphs, so it
keeps going on even if you put a \pagebreak, and stop when you tell it
to stop.
Instead \startbar[underbar] put color only where there are glyphs,
which is not what I'm looking for, unless there is way to do other
wise, but it would contradict the name underbar, so it seems unlikely.
So I think I'll go to \definetextbackground. And try some experiments
with the MPposition stuffs.
2- Using \startMPpositionmethod{mpos:placeholder}, found in
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/125162/rounded-box-around-placeholder-text-that-supports-line-breaking/125323
(Thanks to Aditya).
A bit tricky, but perhaps the more versatile or universal?
3- Start with: \definetextbackground (same ref. as previous).
%
% About the third one I have had some difficulties, that might be
thought of as a bug.
% You might want and try the following example: it doesn't work if you
have a MetaPost variable
% whose name is text.
(Untested). Normally this means that there is already a variable with the
name text. You can use:
Yes it's what I gathered. It took me some time to do so, though.
I didn't know of the nuewnumeric which is a good shortcut.
Thanks for this quick answer,
Chris
save text; numeric text;
or
newnumeric text;
which is shortcut for the former.
Aditya
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