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From: "Gilles Waeber" <lists@gilleswaeber.ch>
To: "'mailing list for ConTeXt users'" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Left frame on a block of text
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2019 20:53:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <!&!AAAAAAAAAAAuAAAAAAAAAN6vAzlYdodIpFgzcFp0Mz0BAMO2jhD3dRHOtM0AqgC7tuYAAAAAAA4AABAAAAAzkBfXQW4CRpf5Kv6fn9NwAQAAAAA=@gilleswaeber.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.YAK.7.76.44.1904200944270.5268@nqv-guvaxcnq>

Thanks, that's exactly what I needed.
I got inspired by your post at https://adityam.github.io/context-blog/post/frame-with-solid-left-line/ for my original code.

I just added linecap:=butt; at the beginning of the metapost code to get squared ends.

Gilles

> Framed does not provide enough hooks to control the spaces. For something
> like this, you can also use metapost to draw the background:
> 
> \showframe
> \showboxes
> \defineframedtext[leftbartext][
>          width=broad,
>          frame=off,
>          rulethickness=.5ex,
>          background=mp:offsetframe,
>          offset=overlay,
> ]
> 
> \defineoverlay[mp:offsetframe][\useMPgraphic{mp:offsetframe}]
> 
\startuseMPgraphic{mp:offsetframe}
linecap:=butt;
   draw leftboundary OverlayBox
         xshifted -(LeftMarginDistance + 0.5OverlayLineWidth)
         withpen pencircle scaled OverlayLineWidth;
   setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox; \stopuseMPgraphic
> 
> \starttext
> \startleftbartext
> \input knuth
> \stopleftbartext
> \stoptext
> 
> 
> Aditya


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  reply	other threads:[~2019-04-20 18:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-20 12:53 Gilles Waeber
2019-04-20 13:46 ` Aditya Mahajan
2019-04-20 18:53   ` Gilles Waeber [this message]
2019-04-21 10:13   ` Otared Kavian

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