colored tables or similar in headings

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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Date: 08 Apr 2003 19:11:09 -0700

> Black        > S u m m a r y
> Green        > ---------------------------------------------------
> White/Orange > Special Report                         Anthony Wood
> Green        > ---------------------------------------------------

OK, I would do the following

\parbox[b]{\textwidth}{%
  Summary\strut
  \color{green}
  \hrule
  \colorbox{orange}{\textcolor{white}{\makebox[\linewidth-2\fboxsep]{
    Special Report \hfill Anthony Wood }}\strut}
  \hrule
}

(Actually, I wouldn't use green and orange together :-)

Donald Arseneau

colored tables or similar in headings

This worked for me, after some fiddling, grepping, etc:

\newcommand*{\REPORT@mkheadx}{%
\parbox[b]{\textwidth}{%
\trebuchet\LARGE\REPORT@heading\large\strut
\color{green}\hrule height .25em
\colorbox{orange}{\textcolor{white}{\makebox[\linewidth-2\fboxsep]{
\REPORT@title \hfill \REPORT@partner}}\strut}
\hrule height .25em
}}

Now I just have to work out how to get the section name into the header, and how to make the header landscape on a landscape page.

Woody

colored tables or similar in headings

> Now I just have to work out how to get the section name into the header,

     I presume you have looked at the fancyhdr package. In any case
\sectionmark is how to access the section title (similarly \chaptermark for
the chapter title) but look at the code for the standard class's headings
page style for ideas on how to use these.

Peter W.

colored tables or similar in headings

> Now I just have to work out how to get the section name into the header,

The same as with any other pagestyle: \leftmark and \rightmark.

> and how to make the header landscape on a landscape page.

Look up landscape or rotating in the FAQ.

Donald Arseneau