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... (Thanks to Aditya). A bit tricky, but perhaps the more versatile or universal?
3- Start with: "\definetextbackground" (same ref. as previous).
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% 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