Hi Hans, hi guys, thanks for your answer, but, at least in my ConTeXt installation, it does not affect the width of the textbackground (see example 1). I also tried other approaches to set the width of a textbackground being larger than the actual text width. So far I solved it using \startnarrower. However when a page break happens within the textbackground ConTeXt does not set it properly. The dimensions of the defined textbackground are correct. however you will see the color of the background only at the first page but not after the page break. below an example (example 2). Similar happens when I have double sided pages. do you have an idea how to fix this issue? Thanks! Armin ********** EXAMPLE 1 \definetextbackground[zhu] [location=paragraph, background=color,backgroundcolor=orange, %frame=off,topframe=on, leftoffset=0.5\bodyfontsize,rightoffset=.5\bodyfontsize, topoffset=.5\bodyfontsize,bottomoffset=.5\bodyfontsize, before={\startnarrower[left,right]}, after={\stopnarrower}, width=\paperwidth, frame=off] \starttext \dorecurse{1}{\input knuth\endgraf} \startzhu \dorecurse{2}{\input bryson\endgraf} \stopzhu \dorecurse{1}{\input knuth\endgraf} \stoptext *********** EXAMPLE 2 \setupnarrower[right=-1.0cm,left=-1.0cm] \definetextbackground[zhu] [location=paragraph, background=color,backgroundcolor=orange, leftoffset=0.5\bodyfontsize,rightoffset=.5\bodyfontsize, topoffset=.5\bodyfontsize,bottomoffset=.5\bodyfontsize, before={\startnarrower[left,right]}, after={\stopnarrower}, frame=off] \startsetups important:start \starttextbackground[zhu] \stopsetups \startsetups important:stop \endgraf \stoptextbackground \stopsetups \definestartstop [important] [before=\setups{important:start}, after=\setups{important:stop}] \starttext \dorecurse{1}{\input knuth\endgraf} \startimportant \dorecurse{2}{\input bryson\endgraf} \stopimportant \dorecurse{1}{\input knuth\endgraf} \startimportant \dorecurse{3}{\input bryson\endgraf} \stopimportant \dorecurse{1}{\input knuth\endgraf} \startimportant \input bryson\endgraf \stopimportant \stoptext Zitat von Hans Hagen :

On 15-7-2010 6:02, Armin Varmaz wrote:

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Hallo,

I am wondering if there is an option in \definetextbackground to get the output over the entire width of a page? I mean to go over the width of the \textwidth (for example like \setlayout[width=\textwidth+\outermargintotal])?

\paperwidth

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Hi again, is there another approach (I didn't find an appropriate one in the documentations) to define a text block with a width larger than the actual text width? such a text block should be able to go over several page and be able to handle left and right pages (that is at the right page I want 2cm more for the right side and at left pages I want 2 cm more for the left side)? I appreciate any hint where to look for. Armin

On 23-7-2010 8:49, varmaz@uni-bremen.de wrote:

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Hi Hans, hi guys,

thanks for your answer, but, at least in my ConTeXt installation, it does not affect the width of the textbackground (see example 1).

I also tried other approaches to set the width of a textbackground being larger than the actual text width. So far I solved it using \startnarrower.

it's related to the negative rightskip ... i can fix it but i need to think a bit about side effects

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