On Wed, 2011-11-23 at 21:52 -0500, Aditya Mahajan wrote:

Why not just increase the value of leftoffset and rightoffset?

Because then the text is fine on the left side, but then goes past the right frame border. -- Kip Warner -- Software Engineer OpenPGP encrypted/signed mail preferred http://www.thevertigo.com

On Wed, 2011-11-23 at 21:52 -0500, Aditya Mahajan wrote:

Why not just increase the value of leftoffset and rightoffset?

This seems to work, but I find a problem is that if the text box spans multiple pages, bottomoffset / topoffset are ignored at the points where the page breaks. Suggestions? -- Kip Warner -- Software Engineer OpenPGP encrypted/signed mail preferred http://www.thevertigo.com

Hey Hans, Aditya, and Wolfgang, You gentlemen seem to be very knowledgeable with ConTeXt, so I will run a question by you that has been plaguing me for months. I am using the following to typeset a text box containing text. \definetextbackground[GeneralDocument][ location=paragraph, color=color_text, background=color, backgroundcolor=colour_page, framecolor=colour_text, topoffset=1.0cm, bottomoffset=1.0cm, leftoffset=1.0cm, rightoffset=1.0cm, before={ \blank[2*big] }, after={ \blank[2*big] }, style=small, corner=round, frame=on] This works fine, but I still have a problem if the text box spans multiple pages because bottomoffset / topoffset seem to be ignored at the points where the page breaks. The text just goes right to the edge of the page top or bottom without any whitespace. Any ideas? -- Kip Warner -- Software Engineer OpenPGP encrypted/signed mail preferred http://www.thevertigo.com

On 31-1-2012 08:24, luigi scarso wrote:

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 5:18 AM, Kip Warner wrote:

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Hey Hans, Aditya, and Wolfgang,

You gentlemen seem to be very knowledgeable with ConTeXt,

Yes, at least Hans. IIRC he is the *only* author of ConTeXt.

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On Mon, 30 Jan 2012, Kip Warner wrote:

Hey Hans, Aditya, and Wolfgang,

You gentlemen seem to be very knowledgeable with ConTeXt, so I will run a question by you that has been plaguing me for months. I am using the following to typeset a text box containing text.

\definetextbackground[GeneralDocument][ location=paragraph, color=color_text, background=color, backgroundcolor=colour_page, framecolor=colour_text, topoffset=1.0cm, bottomoffset=1.0cm, leftoffset=1.0cm, rightoffset=1.0cm, before={ \blank[2*big] }, after={ \blank[2*big] }, style=small, corner=round, frame=on]

This works fine, but I still have a problem if the text box spans multiple pages because bottomoffset / topoffset seem to be ignored at the points where the page breaks. The text just goes right to the edge of the page top or bottom without any whitespace.

Do you have to use textbackground (assuming, of course, that you are using MkIV)? Regular backgrounds take care of top and bottom offsets: \definebackground [whatever] [topoffset=1cm, bottomoffset=1cm, frame=on] \starttext \input ward \startwhatever \dorecurse{6}{\input knuth \endgraf} \stopwhatever \input ward \stoptext The main advantage of textbackground is that they adapt to pararagraph shapes (if you use things like \startplacefigure[location=left] ... \stopplacefigure), and can be nested. Aditya