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I wrote:

> >Hello, is there a way to combine framing and textrule?
> >
> >The effect I would like to obtain is something of the sort:
> >[fixed width chars to see it properly]
> >
> >+---- A title text --------------+
> >
> >| Text text text text text text  |
> >| text text text text text text  |
> >| text text text text text text  |
> >| text text text text text text  |
> >
> >+--------------------------------+

Uwe Koloska wrote:
> 
> Just have a look at the metafun manual p. 196 (screen).  You only have to 
> delete the frame around "A title text" (or "Zapf (1)" in the manual)
> 
> Maybe it's possible without context by tricking with overlay ...
> 

Well, that's surely a workaround, and it would also allow funnier
frames (ovals, etc) with text. But I was hoping for a ConTeXt-only
solution, without pulling in metafun (it slows down compilation
a lot, you know, and if it's not strictly necessary I would
prefer to go without).

Giuseppe Bilotta

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