I’ve been producing sidebars to the left of a body of text using the framed package, which only gives black results reliably. The colorframed pkg is a hackjob of patchwork that tries to fix color problems from framed. But apparently it does not support a color leftbar. It’s a shame because I am creating a package that makes use of both leftbar and pdfcolparcolumns. The pdfcolparcolumns can do color vertical bars but it brings baggage and side effects. So I substitute \leftbar from framed when parcolumns screws the pooch. But then I cannot color a leftbar from colorframed to match pdfcolparcolumns vertical rules.

Guess I’m fucked.. not really interested in any complex options. If there is a decent drop-in solution I would be interested.