Hoi Patrick,

Humble, I used just the \bTABLE ...\eTABLE environment. Please refer to 
the attached file.

Kind regards
Willi

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Patrick Gundlach wrote:
> Hello *,
> 
> 
> inspired by Gerben's question, I did some experimenting with \framed.
> 
> I'd like to get A[text]B, where text is some long thing in a framed
> box like \framed[width=5cm] {\input tufte \par}.
> 
> There are three different ways of aligning the three objects:
> 
> 
> (A and B on the same baseline as the first row)
> 
> A We  thrive  in  information- B
> -------------------------------
>   thick worlds because of  our
>   marvelous and  everyday  ca-
> 
> 
> (A and B in the middle of the box, not necessarily on the same
> baseline as a line in the box)
> 
>   criminate, distinguish, screen, 
> A pigeonhole,  pick  over,  sort, B
>   integrate,    blend,   inspect,
> 
> 
> (A and B on the same baseline as the last row)
> 
>   from the chaff and seperate
> A the sheeps from the  goats. B
> --------------------------------
> 
> 
> 
> I was unable to get any of these alignments.
> 
> Patrick