On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Bart Wise wrote:
I am trying change the background color of some text. It works fine if I am using one column. It also works fine if I am using multiple columns, but restricting my background color changes to only a single line of text in a column.
I have encountered this problem in the past. This is a limitations of the simple column mechanism.
However, if I have a section that I want to I change, and that section spans more than one line in a given column it does not work. What happens is that the background starts to change where you have indicated; however, instead of stopping at the end of the column, the background color changes for the entire text. See the subject entitled "Problem 1" below for an example. Is there a fix for this (and no, using a single column is not a solution.)
Use columnsets. They are not as easy and simple as columns, but they provide a lot more features. See the columnset manual for details about using them. Aditya