Re: framed texts and other "minipage"

["Maurice Diamantini (dom)" <mdiam@free.fr>]

Le 7 janv. 06 à 13:50, Hans Hagen a écrit :

>> No, that will not work.
>> After much probing I found the culprit.
>> The framedtext takes the full linewidth and apparently does not   
>> reduces it to the given size.
>> Therefore enclosing in a vbox seems necessary:
>>    \vbox{\hsize=framesize\startframedtext{width=framesize ...
>>
>> Question for Hans Hagen: is it an option letting framedtext set  
>> the  hsize when a specific width is given?
>
> \hbox to \hsize \bgroup
>    \startframedtext[none][width=.5\textwidth]
>        \input tufte
>    \stopframedtext
>    \startframedtext[none][width=.5\textwidth]
>        \input zapf
>    \stopframedtext
> \egroup

Why is it not possible to simply use the \framed command (with some  
magic option to
put text into it) to do the obove thing?
    \startframed[width=.5\textwidth, xxxx]
        \input tufte
    \stopframed
    \startframed[width=.5\textwidth, xxxx]
        \input zapf
    \stopframed

If it is impossible, is there any equivalent to de minipage or  
\parbox LaTeX
equivalent?

-- Maurice