Re: [PLUG] Re: shading text background

[Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com>]

On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 02:06:37PM -0600, MaD dUCK wrote:
> 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?

Glue is your friend.

Something like

  \colorbox[named]{Gray}{\hss This text is in a gray box \hss}

Some fiddling no doubt required, else this wouldn't be TeX. ;-)

-- 
 Jeff

 Jeff Abrahamson  <http://www.purple.com/jeff/>