Textbackgrounds interrupted by floats

7 Apr 2015

      Folks,

Here is problem that must have been asked about before, but I can’t seem to find a solution on the archive or anywhere else. I want a colour background for verbatim text (for code), and floating figures. However if a figure floats to the bottom (as in the example below), and the verbatim text is broken over to the next page because it is long, I don’t want the colour background under the figure as well — I want no background at all.

What is the correct setup to do that?

Thanks, Robin

\setupexternalfigures[location=default]
\setupcolors[state=start]

\definetextbackground[code][
    frame=off,
    location=paragraph,
    background=color,
    backgroundcolor=yellow]
\setuptyping[typing][
    %option=color,
    before={\starttextbackground[code]},
    after=\stoptextbackground]

\starttext

\startplacefigure[location=bottom]
\externalfigure[cow][width=0.5\textwidth]
\stopplacefigure

\input tufte

\starttyping
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\stoptyping

\input tufte

\stoptext

Robin.Kirkham＠csiro.au

Wolfgang Schuster

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