Hello, For a multilingual document, alternating one language or another, not necessarily a bilingual, translated text, I thought about using textbackground to set-off paragraphs. This technique could also apply to a single language text having multiple levels of information, perhaps statements followed by discussion, etc. A problem appears with respect to footnotes that I do not know how to handle. If the backgrounded text goes across pages placing footnotes, then the footnote also gets the background. This is incorrect, perhaps a bug. Second problem, if a footnote of a backgrounded text gets placed on a following page, then it may not get a background. (It is not clear to me whether it would be correct for footnotes to get the background or not.) Of course, a solution to this secondary problem might be before={\startlocalfootnotes}, after={\placelocalfootnotes\stoplocalfootnotes}, although such a solution would postpone backgrounded footnotes to the end of the backgrounded text. Alan MWE: \definetextbackground [spanish] [location=paragraph, frame=off, before={\language[es]}, background=color, backgroundcolor=lightgray] \starttext \input darwin% \startfootnote \input dawkins \stopfootnote \input tufte \startspanish \input quevedo-es% \startfootnote \input cervantes-es \stopfootnote \stopspanish \input zapf \stoptext
On 2/26/2015 10:22 AM, Alan BRASLAU wrote:
Hello,
For a multilingual document, alternating one language or another, not necessarily a bilingual, translated text, I thought about using textbackground to set-off paragraphs. This technique could also apply to a single language text having multiple levels of information, perhaps statements followed by discussion, etc.
A problem appears with respect to footnotes that I do not know how to handle. If the backgrounded text goes across pages placing footnotes, then the footnote also gets the background. This is incorrect, perhaps a bug.
Second problem, if a footnote of a backgrounded text gets placed on a following page, then it may not get a background. (It is not clear to me whether it would be correct for footnotes to get the background or not.) Of course, a solution to this secondary problem might be before={\startlocalfootnotes}, after={\placelocalfootnotes\stoplocalfootnotes}, although such a solution would postpone backgrounded footnotes to the end of the backgrounded text.
Alan
MWE:
\definetextbackground [spanish] [location=paragraph, frame=off, before={\language[es]}, background=color, backgroundcolor=lightgray]
\starttext
\input darwin% \startfootnote \input dawkins \stopfootnote
\input tufte
\startspanish \input quevedo-es% \startfootnote \input cervantes-es \stopfootnote \stopspanish
\input zapf
\stoptext
\definetextbackground[en] \definetextbackground[nl] \setnewconstant\kindofpagetextareas 1 % low level, no high level switch (yet) \starttext \starttextbackground[en] \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte \footnote{tufte} \par} \stoptextbackground \starttextbackground[nl] \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte \footnote{tufte} \par} \stoptextbackground \stoptext ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------
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