bed_gdg@SHSU.BITNET ("George D. Greenwade") (03/30/91)
Something I've been meaning to ask since INFO-TeX came up: Is there any way to "shade" the contents of a box in LaTeX (preferably without going to PostScript)? Here's what I have in mind: Create a minipage (or \parbox of \fbox or \framebox, or use shadow.sty for a shadowed framed box or whatever) where the text of the minipage (or whatever) is printed on a gray-shaded background to more completely differentiate the text of the box from the non-shaded main text of the document. Someone out there is bound to have done this; I've just never seen an example or style which controls this. I'm relatively confident this is a trivial concern in PostScript (certainly, I would like to see this as well), but I would strongly prefer a non-PostScript solution if anyone has one (my LN03 is just across the hall, about 12 paces from my terminal; I'm fundamentally lazy and don't want to walk to another building across the mall to get to the PostScript printers over there if I can avoid it 8-)). Regards, George %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% George D. Greenwade, Ph.D. Bitnet: BED_GDG@SHSU Department of Economics and Business Analysis THEnet: SHSU::BED_GDG P. O. Box 2118 Voice: (409) 294-1266 Sam Houston State University FAX: (409) 294-3612 Huntsville, TX 77341 Internet: bed_gdg%shsu.decnet@relay.the.net %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%