Am 29.01.2009 um 21:22 schrieb Antoine Cailliau:
It's hard to say what't the best method in your case is because more information are needed. The first thing that came to my mind was to reduce the text area to a narrow column and place the extra text and the figures and a wide left margin.
Ok, so I was not so wrong. But my main concern is about the background that has to take the full height and half width. In addition, if the background may be larger than the page it would nice in case of printing (so, no margin at all)
\setupcolors[state=start] \defineoverlay [graybar] [{\blackrule [color=middlegray, height=\dimexpr\paperheight+1cm\relax, width=\dimexpr\paperwidth/2+1cm]% \hskip\dimexpr\paperwidth/2+1cm\relax}] \setupbackgrounds[page][background=graybar] [rest of the document] If you want the background on chapter pages etc. it makes sense to integrate the background in a slightly different way but more details about the layout needed for this to find the best solution. Wolfgang