if I only had a frame (was: Re: Sidebars and versals Oh my!)

["Adam Lindsay" <atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk>]

John Culleton said this at Mon, 27 Dec 2004 12:42:09 -0500:

>1. Two words in the main text (both "influenced")  actually intrude into the 
>sidebar. 
>
>1a. One word in the sidebar ("influencing") overflows the dimensions of the 
>background. (but see 3 below.)

I tried your example as sent, and I had no margin intrusions--are you
having hyphenation problems? Is cmr still your default font? (Or are you
perhaps using UK hyphenation rules?)

>2. If I specify a background screen and a frame with rounded corners the 
>background remains rectangular and does not round to match the frame.

I noticed that too. It seems a feature interaction with corner rounding--
I suspect they were never intended to go together. You'll probably need
to get into MetaPost for proper fancy bordering.

>4. The sidebar in the original test example goes out almost to the very edge 
>of the paper. Printers don't like this :-) I will play with page layout 
>dimensions a bit to see if I can fix this. 

Yeah, I just went with the default margins/layout and turned on the page
frames to more clearly/minimally illustrate the example. This *ought* to
work with any sane layout...

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