Re: [Groff] colored background?

[Michael(tm) Smith]

Tadziu Hoffmann <address@hidden>, 2008-02-25 10:36 +0100:

> > Is there a way I could modify it so that the filled box
> > extends all the way across the whole line length? (i.e.,
> > from the left margin / page offset to the right margin).
> 
> Sure. You mean like this?:
[...]
> (If the boxed text itself uses .in, you may need to save the
> indent of the surrounding text in a custom register in BB and
> restore it in EB.)

Cool -- thanks very much

> > Also, when I process a doc with this, it displays as expected but
> > I get a message saying "troff: automatically ending diversion `BX'
> > on exit." Is there some tweak I need to make to eliminate that?
> 
> That shouldn't happen.  Usually a message like this indicates
> that you have a call to BB (which starts diverting into BX)
> without a corresponding EB (which ends that diversion again).

Yeah, not sure what I was doing wrong before, but I must have
corrected it because I'm not getting that message any longer.

  --Mike

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