Missing background color with \definetextbackground

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B. Tommy Jensen

1 Sep 2008 1 Sep '08

10:06 p.m.

Hi, I am strugglig to get the background color visible with the following code: %---------------------------------------------------- \setupcolors[state=start] \definetextbackground[highlight][backgroundcolor=yellow, frame=on, location=text, color=blue] \starttext \starttextbackground[highlight] This text should have yellow background but it is white. The text is however blue. \stoptextbackground \stoptext %------------------------------------------------- The background of the rendered text is always white, independent of the backgroundcolor parameter. The font color is however OK (blue). All other samples I have tried from "details.pdf" behaves similarly - no background color and no frame/frame color. I am using the latest complete standalone Windows version of Context. Has anybody encountered a similar behaviour? Best regards, Tommy Jensen

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Aditya Mahajan

1 Sep 1 Sep

10:12 p.m.

On Tue, 2 Sep 2008, B. Tommy Jensen wrote:

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Hi, I am strugglig to get the background color visible with the following code:

%---------------------------------------------------- \setupcolors[state=start] \definetextbackground[highlight][backgroundcolor=yellow, background=color,%<--- Add this frame=on, location=text, color=blue] \starttext \starttextbackground[highlight] This text should have yellow background but it is white. The text is however blue. \stoptextbackground \stoptext %-------------------------------------------------

Add background=color to \definetextbackground Aditya

Mojca Miklavec

10:18 p.m.

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On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 12:06 AM, B. Tommy Jensen wrote:

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Hi, I am strugglig to get the background color visible with the following code:

%---------------------------------------------------- \setupcolors[state=start] \definetextbackground[highlight][backgroundcolor=yellow, frame=on,

%add background=color,

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location=text, color=blue] \starttext \starttextbackground[highlight] This text should have yellow background but it is white. The text is however blue. \stoptextbackground \stoptext %-------------------------------------------------

The background of the rendered text is always white, independent of the backgroundcolor parameter. The font color is however OK (blue). All other samples I have tried from "details.pdf" behaves similarly - no background color and no frame/frame color.

Mojca

B. Tommy Jensen

2 Sep 2 Sep

7:46 a.m.

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On Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:18:40 +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

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%---------------------------------------------------- \setupcolors[state=start] \definetextbackground[highlight][backgroundcolor=yellow, frame=on,

%add background=color,

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location=text, color=blue] \starttext \starttextbackground[highlight] This text should have yellow background but it is white. The text is however blue. \stoptextbackground \stoptext %-------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the prompt reply! I have tried to add background=color as an option, but the result is exactly the same; only the text gets colored; no frame and no background color appear. Do you have other ideas? Best regards, Tommy Jensen

Wolfgang Schuster

9:08 a.m.

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On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 9:46 AM, B. Tommy Jensen wrote:

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On Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:18:40 +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

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%---------------------------------------------------- \setupcolors[state=start] \definetextbackground[highlight][backgroundcolor=yellow, frame=on,

%add background=color,

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location=text, color=blue] \starttext \starttextbackground[highlight] This text should have yellow background but it is white. The text is however blue. \stoptextbackground \stoptext %-------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the prompt reply!

I have tried to add background=color as an option, but the result is exactly the same; only the text gets colored; no frame and no background color appear.

Do you have other ideas?

Is metapost or MPtoPDF called, take a in your terminal, dou you have the metafun format and do you use MkII (texexec ...) or MkIV (context ...). Wolfgang

B. Tommy Jensen

10:55 a.m.

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On Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:08:36 +0200, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

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Do you have other ideas?

Is metapost or MPtoPDF called, take a in your terminal, dou you have the metafun format and do you use MkII (texexec ...) or MkIV (context ...).

Wolfgang

Thanks a lot for pointing me in the right direction! I was using the "texexec" utility. When I tried the same with the "context" version, it rebuilt some formats and it now works exactly as expected. Sorry for being a novice here; is it so that the "texexec" utility should be consiered as obsolete? Best regards, Tommy Jensen

Wolfgang Schuster

11:08 a.m.

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On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 12:55 PM, B. Tommy Jensen wrote:

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On Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:08:36 +0200, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

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Do you have other ideas?

Is metapost or MPtoPDF called, take a in your terminal, dou you have the metafun format and do you use MkII (texexec ...) or MkIV (context ...).

Wolfgang

Thanks a lot for pointing me in the right direction!

I was using the "texexec" utility. When I tried the same with the "context" version, it rebuilt some formats and it now works exactly as expected.

Sorry for being a novice here; is it so that the "texexec" utility should be consiered as obsolete?

But MkII should work too. Try "texexec --make metafun --alone" and now "texexec myfile". Wolfgang

B. Tommy Jensen

11:35 a.m.

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On Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:08:56 +0200, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

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Sorry for being a novice here; is it so that the "texexec" utility should be consiered as obsolete?

But MkII should work too. Try "texexec --make metafun --alone" and now "texexec myfile".

Wolfgang

Thanks - this also now works! The "context" utility built the format automatically while I had to run the command manually with "texexec" (So "context" seems to be smarter than "texexec"). My installation is the "complete windows environment" of context. I ran the "fist_setup.bat" batch file after installation; this built many formats. I don't know why the metafun format wasn't built - perhaps something is missing from the setup file? In any case - thanks a lot for the good advice. Best regards, Tommy Jensen

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