···<date: 2012-09-27, Thursday>···<from: Aditya Mahajan>···

> On Fri, 28 Sep 2012, Philipp Gesang wrote:
> 
> >Hi all,
> >
> >the background mechanism of tabulations is quite simplistic: it
> >extends only to the first line of a cell irrespective of its
> >length. Example:
> >
> >·······································································
> >\starttext
> >\starttabulate[|p|r|]
> > \CM [red] \input knuth \NC was said by The Don \NC \AR
> >\stoptabulate
> >\stoptext
> >·······································································
> >
> >Is there a way to get the whole cell covered? (Textbackgrounds
> >only color the area where text is, not the entire cell.)
> 
> The TABLE macros are more flexible than tabulate.

Yes, I know that, but I cannot rule out that I will be needing
page breaks inside paragraphs. (Besides, the wiki doesn’t mention
this behavior and afair I’m partially responsible for that
omission ;-))

Philipp


> 
> (Untested)
> 
> \startsetups table:setup
> \setupTABLE[frame=off]
> \setupTABLE[r][1][background=color, color=red, width=0.5\hsize]
> \stopsetups
> 
> \startTABLE[setups={table:setup}]
> \NC \input knuth \NC was said by the Don \NC \NR
> \stopTABLE
> 
> Aditya

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