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I, too, do not understand the \definetextbackground \starttextbackground \stoptextbackground commands, even though I tried looking at "details.pdf" (and core-pgr.tex). My particular problem is rather classic, that of illustrating examples, set off from the main text. I first used \defineframedtext [example] [width=fit,background=screen,backgroundscreen=0.7] \startexample ... \stopexample and this is appropriate if the example is short enough to fit on one page. However, a long example (many paragraphs) that spans more than one page runs off the bottom. Textbackground seems more appropriate, so I tried \definetextbackground [example] [location=paragraph,backgroundcolor=middlegray,frame=off] \definestartstop [example] [before={\starttextbackground[example]},after=\stoptextbackground] but this does not work. I tried other variants (such as adding state=start, ...) with no success. Does anyone have suggestions on where to look for further documentation or examples of use? Thanks.