Hello, I would like to discuss a few points about backgrounds (\startbackground ... \stopbackground). First of all, it would be nice to have "background classes", so that I can have different backgrounds for different things without having to reset it each time. (Think \definebackground[this][options=values], \setupthis, \startthis ... \stopthis, as usual.) The second point is about the splitting capabilities in backgrounds. This is incredibly nice to have, but needs a little finetuning, IMO: it should be possible to specify whether the various options that concern the "border" of the background (i.e. background corner, frame, frame corner, etc) should act at split time or not; example: assume that I set my background to have a frame (frame=on) If the background gets split across pages, I get two "boxed" text: the first in the first page, the second in the second page. Instead, to show that the block continues on the next page, it should be possible to turn this off. I suggest options like: splitframe, splitframecorner, splitbackgoundcorner analogous to topframe/bottomframe and the like, which defines the behaviour of frames and angles in the "split area". Moreover (now I'm getting picky, but while we're at it ...) it would be nice, even for generic framed text, to be able to specify the behaviour of each single corner separately (say, top left and top right rounded, bottom left and right rectangular). -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta
At 03:37 PM 3/24/2003 +0100, you (GB) wrote:
Got you! Did you read details.pdf? It's all in there, you can hook in your own graphics, it works with columnsets, in graphics, tables, nests quite well, is layered, classes, and more. (\startbackground will be there for old times sake). Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------
Monday, March 24, 2003 Hans Hagen wrote: HH> At 03:37 PM 3/24/2003 +0100, you (GB) wrote:
HH> Got you! Did you read details.pdf? It's all in there, you can hook in your HH> own graphics, it works with columnsets, in graphics, tables, nests quite HH> well, is layered, classes, and more. (\startbackground will be there for HH> old times sake). Actually I did have a look at it (assuming you're talking about textbackgrounds), but I found their behaviour to be rather different from that of backgrounds even when location=paragraph. For example, setting frame=on doesn't give me a frame, and it doesn't seem to support rounded corners for neither the background nor the frame. Also, setting a largish offset "covers" the text that precedes the background, and this isn't nice at all. I think that textbackgrounds and backgrounds serve different purpouses. And what about the other requests? (Behaviour at splits, different corner styles) -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta
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