John Culleton said this at Mon, 27 Dec 2004 10:10:06 -0500:
Adam is right. Think of an "intermezzo" with a gray background but either in the margin,or placed in the outer part of the text block like an illustration, or protruding from the text block. The term "sidebar" is American magazine usage. Generally a sidebar in this sense contains a summary of the contents of the page or repeats an important point.
Ah, grey's easy, since these blocks are get most of their juice from the frame mechanisms: \setupcolors[state=start] \setupfloat [intermezzo] [leftmargindistance=-\outercombitotal, rightmargindistance=-\outercombitotal, default={outer,high}, background=color, backgroundcolor=gray] (High seems a little better for the aesthetics of the block placement.) I figured out what I needed from the Details manual, so you were on the right track, anyway. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dept. atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk Lancaster University, InfoLab21 +44(0)1524/510.514 Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/510.492 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-