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From: Aditya Mahajan via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
To: Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
Subject: Re: Visual highlighted text with title, mix of enumeration and framedtext
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2023 08:24:17 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <27626911-985n-7on7-r19p-2377r7320s38@hzvpu.rqh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <21f46db2-7572-5a45-a0ae-f4d937f9482b@fiee.net>

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On Mon, 6 Mar 2023, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote:

> Am 06.03.23 um 12:19 schrieb Gerion Entrup via ntg-context:
> > I want to typeset a "Good to know" section that is visually highlighted
> > and can spawn across multiple pages.
> > 
> > In LaTeX this would be possible with the mdframed package. See the
> > attached screenshot for an example how it might look like (it is copied
> > out of page 4: Definition: Inhomogeneous linear of the mdframed
> > documentation:
> > http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/mdframed/mdframed.pdf)
> > 
> > I have searched in the wiki and found \defineenumeration:
> > This is near of that what I need. However I explicitly does not need an
> > enumeration (so no number or counter). Also I am not sure if I can set a
> > background and so on.
> > 
> > The other possibility is \defineframedtext. For example this goes much
> > in the direction that I want:
> > \definecolor[gbackground][s=0.98]
> > \defineframedtext[gtk][frame=on,
> >                         offset=5pt,
> >                         background=color,
> >                         width=0.95\textwidth,
> >                         backgroundcolor=gbackground]
> > 
> > However, there does not seem a possibility to define a title and it
> > seems to not work on multiple pages.
> > 
> > Is there a mix of an enumeration and framedtext that can produce
> > something like in the attached picture?
> 
> If you don’t need an enumeration, then don’t use one.
> 
> Did you try text backgrounds?
> https://wiki.contextgarden.net/TextBackground

As an example, see this article that I had written years ago:

https://www.tug.org/pracjourn/2006-4/mahajan/

The solution environment there is similar to what you want. Most of the code there should still work with minor changes.

Aditya

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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-06 11:19 Gerion Entrup via ntg-context
2023-03-06 12:45 ` Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
2023-03-06 13:24   ` Aditya Mahajan via ntg-context [this message]

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