Re: experimenting metafun: problems with funnyframe

["Uwe Koloska" <uwe.koloska@mailbox.tu-dresden.de>]

You wrote on Dienstag, 19. Dezember 2000 12:10:
>At 03:02 AM 12/19/00 +0100, Uwe Koloska wrote:
>
>>1. What is the reason, the framed text does not span the whole line?
>
>The width can be set with [width=] and by default is .75\hsize.

Ah, is it possible to get the default values out of the source?
(Whenever I take a look at the source, I _know_ that my knowledge of TeX is 
rather small ...)

>>2. The lower space between text and frame is greater than the upper one.
>>(this is the case in the manual, too)  Should I use \startlinecorrection?
>>And how?  (just inside StartFrame, I cannot see a difference)
>
>probably a forced depth so that side by side frames look ok, in this
>particular case, there should be a it more space at the top, mabye
>[top=\vskip\dp\strutbox] will help
>

This looks a bit better, but the lower gap is still visually bigger.

Just to test my understanding ;-)  Does this mean: Step down the depth of a 
strutbox?

>>4. How comes I cannot copy the _formatted_ sources from the pdf? Neither
>>interactive nor print version worked.  I know (but not for sure) I have
>>copied code with linebreaks from another pdf but don't know what file
>> this was.
>
>you can try pdftotext

Great suggestion!

  pdftotext -f 181 -l 181 metafun-s.pdf -

outputs just this page on stdout.  And with this in (X)Emacs or a shell 
buffer, I can X Copy & Paste ...

Seems like this one is an error in XEmacs (my SuSE 6.4 came with the very 
old version 21.1; May 1999)

Keep on the good and friendly work!
Uwe

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