[PLUG] Re: shading text background

["Vijay G. Bharadwaj" <vgb@wam.umd.edu>]

> > \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?

One way to do it is to put an \hspace*{3in} or similar at the end of the
text (adjust the length). I'm not sure if \hfill or \hspace*{\fill} would
work, try it out. There might be other ways I'm forgetting...

-Vijay



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