[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... (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