> I want to have a black background with green text for > my slides. > > If I'm correct this can't be set within groff.
You can draw a filled polygon (rectangle) using \D'P ...' covering the whole page at the beginning of each page, before outputting any text. Example: .\" a4 land .\" ---------------------------------------------------------------- .nr PL 21.0c \" A4 landscape height .nr PW 29.7c \" A4 landscape width .pl \n(PLu .po 2c .ll \n(PWu-\n(.ou-\n(.ou .gcolor green .\" ---------------------------------------------------------------- .\" set up a separate environment for headers and footers .\" to avoid interference with the running text .ev 1 .vs 0 .lt \n(PWu-\n(.ou-\n(.ou .fcolor black .gcolor yellow .ev .\" ---------------------------------------------------------------- .de BP .ev 1 \Z'\h'-\\n(.ou'\D'P 0 \\n(PLu \\n(PWu 0 0 -\\n(PLu'' .sp |2c .ev .. .de EP .ev 1 .sp |\\n(PLu-1.5c .tl '\\n[year]/\\n[mo]/\\n[dy]''\\n%' .bp .ev .. .wh 0 BP .wh -3c EP .\" ---------------------------------------------------------------- Hello, world!
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