[PLUG] Re: shading text background

[MaD dUCK <madduck@madduck.net>]

also sprach Vijay G Bharadwaj (on Fri, 08 Dec 2000 01:12:21PM -0500):
> For documentation, the stuff that comes with TeX can't be beat. Look in
> /usr/share/texmf/doc (or wherever your local installation puts its files)

right, but it's not easily searchable...

> \usepackage{graphics,color}
> ...
> \colorbox[named]{Gray}{This text is in a gray box}
> \colorbox[named]{WildStrawberry}{This in a more colorful box}
> \colorbox[gray]{.1}{This box is 10 percent black}
> \colorbox[rgb]{.1,.1,.1}{Look Mom, I'm using rgb values.}

awesome, this works very nicely. however, is it possible to extend the
shading for the entire line even if the text is only a word or two?

thanks,
martin

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