General ⇒ Background color of an environment

[meho_r]

Hi,

Till now, I figured out how to change color in minipage, but it isn't really what I need. It's OK for small blocks of text, but if the text is larger than a page or two, it's a problem since no text break across the pages can't be done.

To put simple: Is there a way to change background color of an environment? E.g. I have \quote environment that I want to have light grey background. How can this be achieved?

[Juanjo]

You can use the framed package. Here you have a simple example:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{framed}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage[dvipsnames]{color}
\definecolor{shadecolor}{named}{Melon}
\begin{document}
A very long description list:
\begin{shaded}
\begin{description}
  \item[First item] \lipsum[1-3]
  \item[Second item] \lipsum[4-6]
  \item[Third item] \lipsum[9-12]
\end{description}
\end{shaded}
\end{document}
 
 
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I copy here the head of framed.sty. To my knowledge, except that, there is no avalaible guide on the macros defined in the package:

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% framed.sty   v 0.8a   21-Jul-2003
% Copyright (C) 1992-2003 by Donald Arseneau
% These macros may be freely transmitted, reproduced, or modified
% provided that this notice is left intact.
% 
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% Create framed or shaded regions that can break across pages using 
% \begin{framed} ... \end{framed}    -- ordinary frame box (box at margin)
% \begin{shaded} ... \end{shaded}    -- shaded background (into margin)
%    ... leftbar ...                 -- line on left side
% \begin{MakeFramed}{settings} ... \end{MakeFramed}
%                        -- generic frame (for new environments)
%
% The "framed" environment puts the text into "\fbox" with the
% settings "\fboxrule=\FrameRule" and "\fboxsep=\FrameSep".
% You can change these lengths (using "\setlength") and you
% can even change the definition of "\FrameCommand" to use
% much fancier boxes.
%
% In fact, the "shaded" environment just redefines "\FrameCommand"
% to use "\colorbox{shadecolor}" (and you have to define the
% color "shadecolor": \newcolor{shadecolor}...).
%
% A page break is allowed, and even encouraged, before the framed
% environment.  If you want to attach some text (a box title) to the
% frame, then the text should be inserted by \FrameCommand
%
% The contents of the framed regions are restricted: 
% Floats, footnotes, marginpars and head-line entries will be lost.
% (Some of these may be handled in a later version.)
% This package will not work with the page breaking of multicol.sty,
% or other systems that perform column-balancing.
%
% The MakeFramed environment does the work.  Its "settings" argument
% should contain any adjustments to the text width (applied to \hsize,
% and using the "\width" of the frame itself) as well as a `restore' 
% command -- \@parboxrestore or \FrameRestore or something similar.
% 
% Expert commands:
% \MakeFramed, \endMakeFramed: the "MakeFramed" environment
% \FrameCommand: command to draw the frame around its argument
 
 
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[meho_r]

Thanks a lot, Juanjo.

I tested it with \usepackage[svgnames]{xcolor} instead of \usepackage[dvipsnames]{color} and it's working fine. This will make many things easier. Although framed is pretty limited (e.g. footnotes are lost) it can be put in good use.