Patrick Gundlach wrote:
still gives me no overlayed color. you have set \setupcolors[state=start] ?
That was the culprit, apparently. I defined it in my definition for the color band but since it was grouped in that def it did not transfer. Now the original [page] option works as expected; [text] [leftmargin] places color in the left margin. This is the working file, if any wants to play with it: Best wishes Idris ================== %\setupoutput[pdftex] % \definepapersize[journal][width=5.5in, height=8.5in] \setuppapersize[journal][letter] \setuplayout[top=2cm,marking=on,width=middle,location=middle] % \setuppagenumber[state=stop] \def\ALAVIband{\midaligned{ \vbox{\hsize=7cm \setupcolors[state=start] \setupbackground[background=color, foregroundcolor=white, backgroundcolor=blue, ] \startbackground \hbox{}\vskip14pt \midaligned{\tfa THE ALAVI FOUNDATION} \stopbackground } } } \setuptoptexts[\ALAVIband] \defineoverlay[backgr][{\externalfigure[elements2.eps]}] \setupcolors[state=start] \setupbackgrounds[page][leftmargin][background={color,backgr}, backgroundcolor=green] \starttext \input tufte \stoptext ==================