Gerben Wierda wrote:

I use \startquotation and \stopquotation a lot. I would like to visually strengthen the quotations because some are pretty lengthy and a reader might forget that it is not me that is writing here. I have been thinking about applying a light grey background or a border of sorts (which should then be open at the top of bottom if the quotation flows over a page boundary. Can someone tell me how to do this?

the following example (maybe one of the happy gwtex users can wikify it for you) shows the principles - cross page backgrounds - dedicated background graphics that adapt - a bit of tuning of margins \starttext \setupcolors[state=start] \defineblank[myquotation][3*medium] \definetextbackground [myquotation] [state=start, location=paragraph, % before={\blank[myquotation]\startnarrower}, % after={\stopnarrower\blank[myquotation]}, before={\blank[myquotation]}, after={\blank[myquotation]}, mp=mpos:par:poem] \startuseMPgraphic{mpos:par:poem} for i = 1 upto nofmultipars : multipars[i] := multipars[i] enlarged .5ExHeight rightenlarged -.5ExHeight; drawoptions ( dashed evenly withpen pencircle scaled 1.5pt ) ; fill multipars[i] withcolor .8white ; if multilocs[i] = 1 : draw llcorner multipars[i] -- ulcorner multipars[i] -- urcorner multipars[i] -- lrcorner multipars[i] withcolor .5red ; elseif multilocs[i] = 3 : draw ulcorner multipars[i] -- llcorner multipars[i] -- lrcorner multipars[i] -- urcorner multipars[i] withcolor .5red ; else : draw leftboundary multipars[i] withcolor .5red ; draw rightboundary multipars[i] withcolor .5red ; fi ; endfor ; \stopuseMPgraphic \setupdelimitedtext [quotation] [leftmargin=.5em, rightmargin=.5em, before={\starttextbackground[myquotation]}, after=\stoptextbackground] \starttext \input tufte \startquotation \dorecurse{10}{\input zapf } \stopquotation \input davis \stoptext \unprotect \def\geneq {\begingroup \setbox\scratchbox\hbox{$=$}% \hbox to \wd\scratchbox {\copy\scratchbox \hskip-\wd\scratchbox \hss\incolortrue\localcolortrue\color[white]{\vrule height .6\ht\scratchbox depth 0pt width .1ex}\hss}% \endgroup} \geneq \stoptext ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------