Text background that spans the width of the page
Hi all, I would like to have a colored horizontal stripe as background for one line of text. Sort of like what textbackground does, but I want it to span the whole \paperwidth, instead of just \textwidth. At the end of the day, I would use it to style for example my section heads, or to highlight one specific \item. What’s the best way to do it? -- Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger, Anger leads to hate, Hate leads to suffering
On 5/2/2014 5:59 PM, Darksair wrote:
Hi all,
I would like to have a colored horizontal stripe as background for one line of text. Sort of like what textbackground does, but I want it to span the whole \paperwidth, instead of just \textwidth. At the end of the day, I would use it to style for example my section heads, or to highlight one specific \item. What’s the best way to do it?
you can use textbackgrounds and plug in some mp code that extends into the margins ... it depends a bit on what 'line' means here \startuniqueMPgraphic{whatever} fill OverlayBox leftenlarged BackSpace rightenlarged CutSpace withcolor OverlayColor ; setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox enlarged max(BackSpace,CutSpace) ; \stopuniqueMPgraphic \defineoverlay[whatever][\uniqueMPgraphic{whatever}] \framed [background=whatever, backgroundcolor=green, frame=off, width=\textwidth] {test}% ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
Hi Hans, On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 09:29:32PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
On 5/2/2014 5:59 PM, Darksair wrote:
Hi all,
I would like to have a colored horizontal stripe as background for one line of text. Sort of like what textbackground does, but I want it to span the whole \paperwidth, instead of just \textwidth. At the end of the day, I would use it to style for example my section heads, or to highlight one specific \item. What’s the best way to do it?
you can use textbackgrounds and plug in some mp code that extends into the margins ... it depends a bit on what 'line' means here
\startuniqueMPgraphic{whatever} fill OverlayBox leftenlarged BackSpace rightenlarged CutSpace withcolor OverlayColor ; setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox enlarged max(BackSpace,CutSpace) ; \stopuniqueMPgraphic
\defineoverlay[whatever][\uniqueMPgraphic{whatever}]
\framed [background=whatever, backgroundcolor=green, frame=off, width=\textwidth] {test}%
Thank you for this interesting solution! I didn’t know one could do that with Metapost. This does exactly what I want. -- Darksair http://darksair.org/ http://twitter.com/#!/MetroWind | http://about.me/darksair http://www.last.fm/user/Darksair
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