Uwe Stöhr wrote:
Christiaan Pauw schrieb:
Is it possible to use background colours in a header, footer and
margin (or part of a each) only. I want to create a layout for a
report that looks something like this:...
Coloring the header and footer should be possible, but coloring the
margin note seems not to be possible.
Is it really a colored margin note (with text), or simply a colored
rectangle decorating part of the margin area?
It is possible to put a colored box or image just where you want it. The
true height and width of the thing can be hidden from latex by embedding
it in a raisebox commands that gives it a fake zero size.
Obviously, nothing prevent other typeset material from crashing into
such a construct, but there is usually nothing in the margin anyway. I
used such a technique for the chapter pages in my book. The publisher
gave me a full-page image with various colored edges that were supposed
to go from edge to edge on the paper.
I see no problem with this page layout, except that it may require some
oddball latex commands and a bit of trial and error. Could surely be a
problem for anyone who don't have time to learn latex commands though.
Helge Hafting
