[OS X TeX] Background images

[Tim Brophy]

Hi All,

This is the zipped contents of what I was attempting. Should work as it works for me!

Tim

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> On 17 Feb 2017, at 01:16, Alain Schremmer <schremmer.alain at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I was curious and tried to run your code but got an error:
> 
> Runaway argument?
> {\tikz [remember picture,overlay]{
> ./MarginRules.tex:10: Paragraph ended before \AddEverypageHook was complete.
> <to be read again> 
>                    \par 
> l.10 
>      
> ? 
> Process aborted
> 
> Now I am even more curious! 
> 
> Regards
> --schremmer
> 
> 
> 
> On , at 2017 Feb 16,9:54 AM, Tim Brophy wrote:
> 
>> I received the following on Stack Exchange and it does what I want with a little tweaking. Thanks for the suggestions.
>> 
>> Tim
>> 
>> \documentclass{report}
>> \usepackage{everypage}
>> \usepackage{tikzpagenodes}
>> \usetikzlibrary{calc}
>> \usepackage{lipsum}% MWE only
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> \AddEverypageHook{\tikz[remember picture,overlay]{%
>> 
>> 
>> \ifodd\value{page}\draw ($(current page text area.north west)+(-0.5\marginparsep,0pt)$)
>> 
>>    -- 
>> ($(current page text area.south west)+(-0.5\marginparsep,0pt)$)
>> ;
>> 
>> \else\draw ($(current page text area.north east)+(0.5\marginparsep,0pt)$)
>> 
>>    -- 
>> ($(current page text area.south east)+(0.5\marginparsep,0pt)$)
>> ;
>> 
>> \fi}}
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> \begin{document}
>> \lipsum [1-16]
>> \end{document}
>>> On 16 Feb 2017, at 14:36, b.a.lee at rocketmail.com wrote:
>>> 
>>> Sorry, I mean \vrule. 
>>> 
>>> Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android
>>> 
>>> On Thu, 16 Feb 2017 at 0:16, Alain Schremmer
>>> <schremmer.alain at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Just a thought: have you looked at tcolorbox? (e.g. Border Line Option Keys)
>>> --schremmer
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On , at 2017 Feb 15,10:45 AM, Tim Brophy wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I want to have a vertical line to the left of every odd numbered page and to the right of every even numbered page. Is it possible to do this?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>> 
>>>> Tim Brophy
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