I tried Yann Collet(t)e's suggestion for making a shadow
box.
which was:
in the preamble -
\usepackage{color, calc}
\definecolor{gris}{gray}{0.25}
\definecolor{contourgris}{gray}{0.75}
and in the document, I surrounded a paragraph with red TeX
\fcolorbox{contourgris}{gris}{\parbox{\textwidth - \parindent - \parindent}{
% paragraph content in here
}}
This did, in fact produce a shaded box as I had hoped but black
on black (or nearly so). View DVI displayed it as absolutely black.
When printed on an HP Laserjet M5 (not a colour printer) I could
barely discern the paragraph contents.
Fiddling with the numbers in the preamble seemed ineffective. Have I
missed some vital ingredient?
John O'Gorman
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