Page Layout ⇒ shaded environment "leaches" colour

[jamesm]

Hi

I am using the shaded environment from the framed package to produce text with a coloured background. When I use shaded on its own, everything works fine, but if I embed it in another environment then the shadecolor I defined affects the text colour after the environment closes.

A minimal example:

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\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[svgnames]{xcolor}
\usepackage{framed}

 \definecolor{shadecolor}{named}{Salmon}
 
\newenvironment{example}%
 {\noindent\raggedright 
     \begin{shaded}\color{Blue}\textbf{Example: }}{ 
  \end{shaded}}

\setlength{\parskip}{12pt}

\begin{document}

Here's a sentence in the default colour (black)

\begin{shaded}
Here's some text in the shaded environment with salmon background. 
\end{shaded}

This sentence is also in the default colour (black)

\begin{example}
This example should have a Salmon background and blue text.  Seems to work nicely! 
\end{example}

This is more text which should be black, but is salmon instead!  Where has that come from?

\end{document}

Any suggestions for what I'm doing wrong? I've seen several examples online which embed shaded in another environment, but no mention of this issue.

Thanks
James

minitest-shaded.pdf

Here's the pdf output.

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[cgnieder]

I must admit I'm not sure what's happening here. I have an alternative suggestion, though: use mdframed instead of framed.

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\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[svgnames]{xcolor}
\usepackage{mdframed}

\colorlet{example}{Salmon}
\colorlet{exampletext}{Blue}
 
\newenvironment{example}
  {
    \raggedright
    \color{exampletext}\textbf{Example: }%
  }{}
\surroundwithmdframed[
  hidealllines=true,
  backgroundcolor=example
]{example}

% don't do this! Use the `parskip' package if you must have paragraph
% skips. setting the length manually has effects in places where it is
% unexpected and not wanted.
% \setlength{\parskip}{12pt}

\usepackage{lipsum} % dummy text

\begin{document}

Here's a sentence in the default colour (black) \lipsum[4]

\begin{example}
  This example should have a Salmon background and blue text.  Seems to work
  nicely! \lipsum[4]
\end{example}

Here's a sentence in the default colour (black) \lipsum[4]

\end{document}

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Regards

[jamesm]

Thanks Clemens - I didn't know about that package.

Still - I'd like to know how to fix the first problem.

James

ps I also didn't know about the parskip package!

embarrassment: title should be "leaches" not "leeches" !!

[cgnieder]

Still - I'd like to know how to fix the first problem.

I'll see what I can find out

I'd still recommend mdframed which is an actively maintained package with lots of bells and whistles for customization.

embarrassment: title should be "leaches" not "leeches" !!

I edited the title

Regards

[jamesm]

Thanks again - I'll have a good look at the mdframed package.

James