[OS X TeX] Background images

[Alain Schremmer]

1. As usual, you were entirely correct. Now it works fine. Impressive.

2. Come to think of it, I lost count of the---very large-- number of times you have bailed me out over the years. 

Very, very grateful regards
--schremmer

On , at 2017 Feb 16,8:33 PM, Ross Moore wrote:

> Hi Alain,
> 
>> On 17 Feb 2017, at 12:16, Alain Schremmer <schremmer.alain at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I was curious and tried to run your code but got an error:
> 
> 
> Did you remove all the blank lines that are seen in the email?
> 
> This tends to happen when a message is submitted from a PC, (with <CR><LF> )
> and read on a Mac/Unix .
> Both characters can be translated into <LF> which causes the blank line
> resulting in  \par  within TeX source.
> 
> 
>> 
>> 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}}
>>> 
> 
> 
> I'd gess that this is what is really meant:
> 
>> \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
> 
> 
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