On 7 April 2015 21:53:40 AEST, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

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Am 07.04.2015 um 13:31 schrieb Robin.Kirkham@csiro.au: 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?

Add the following line to your document:

\setconstant\kindofpagetextareas\plusone

Wolfgang

Thanks Wolfgang, obscure but works perfectly — Robin