Text Formatting ⇒ text color in the new page

[bioalb]

Hello,

I am using the following:

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Some black text
\textcolor{red}{some red text}
Some more black text

All works fine except when "some red text" is long enough that it starts in one page and ends in the next one. In such a case, the text in the new page is black, while - being included in \textcolor curly brackets - it should still be red.

I have observed this using the "color" package with document class of "article" and "report".

Any help is much appreciated.

[localghost]

[…] I have observed this using the "color" package with document class of "article" and "report". […]

Perhaps you should use the xcolor package instead. The code below works flawlessly on a TeX Live 2010 system.

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,english]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage[x11names]{xcolor}

\begin{document}
  \blindtext[4]
  \textcolor{red}{\blindtext[2]}
  \blindtext[4]
\end{document}

Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[bioalb]

Thanks for the quick reply, Thorsten. Really appreciated.

Your suggestion worked. However, I realized that the problem wasn't related to using color or xcolor but it was related to the dvi drivers and/or viewers.

I observed that the lack of continuation of the red colored text in the new page on the compiled dvi (viewed with okular). Upon conversion from dvi to ps (dvips) and subsequently from ps to pdf (ps2pdf), the problem disappeared and the red text correctly continues in the new page.

As it is, this issue can then be considered solved, unless someone is particularly annoyed/concerned that the dvi doesn't quite look like the final pdf in terms of text color.

[localghost]

So what do learn from this? Always look at the PS or PDF output and not at the intermediate DVI file.