Idris S Hamid
I don't get this. My background image comes out at the center of the page; why doesn't the color follow suit?
\setupbackgrounds[page][ignored][background={color,backgr},backgroundcolor=blue] should give you a blue page with the backgr overlay. The following code should give you a white page with some text and a left green margin with "Picture" text. ================================================== \setupcolors[state=start] \defineoverlay[backgr][Picture] \setupbackgrounds[text][leftmargin][background={color,backgr}, backgroundcolor=green] \starttext Hello, Idris. \stoptext ==================================================
still gives me no overlayed color. you have set \setupcolors[state=start] ?
I don't know metapost (yet, its on my to-learn list); is there something I can do to get this solved in the meantime?
Yes: write exactly where you want which color (margin, edge, top.... ) and we provide you a simple metapost code :) Patrick