I want to set the background color specifically for the page created for each "Part" section in my document (e.g. Part I xxx, Part II xxxx). I am using the book document class. Solutions for setting (and resetting) the background colour were not able to specifically color the page with Part I xxxx on it, but also coloured the page after that.
MWE:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\begin{document}
First page
\cleardoublepage
\pagecolor{green}
\part{Example for pagecolor}
\pagecolor{white}
Last page
\end{document}
The "Part" page and the page following it are both colored green.
Best Answer
You can patch the
part
command to add the page color instead of adding it manually. But since anewpage
is issued at the end of\part
internally (whenopenright
option is used (default)) the page color is applied to the next page also. This can be avoided by patching the\@endpart
command. You can do it the hard way or the smart way as shown in the following code.