From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/3611 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Uwe Koloska" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: experimenting metafun: problems with funnyframe Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 03:22:22 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <00122003222202.00970@bilbo> References: <3.0.6.32.20001219121045.00a6a7f0@pop.wxs.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035394340 18610 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:32:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:32:20 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20001219121045.00a6a7f0@pop.wxs.nl> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:3611 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:3611 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 -- mailto:koloska@rcs.urz.tu-dresden.de http://rcswww.urz.tu-dresden.de/~koloska/ -- -- right now the web page is in german only but this will change as time goes by ;-)