From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/21633 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: \parbox, \framed, ... (was: Strange behaviour of \bTABLE ... \eTABLE) Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 00:16:23 +0200 Message-ID: <42E6B637.7070304@wxs.nl> References: <6faad9f005072608417b09c1c9@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1122416165 26437 80.91.229.2 (26 Jul 2005 22:16:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 22:16:05 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Jul 27 00:15:56 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DxXiM-00048d-J6 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 00:15:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 535FA127E9; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 00:15:54 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 23120-04-5; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 00:15:50 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52E6F127FA; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 00:15:50 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0799F127FA for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 00:15:49 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 23120-04-4 for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 00:15:48 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mailrelay02.solcon.nl (maillb.solcon.nl [212.45.32.200]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18103127E9 for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 00:15:48 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from server-1.pragma-net.nl (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by mailrelay02.solcon.nl (8.12.11/SQL-8.12.11-5/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j6QMFf3B024900; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 00:15:41 +0200 Original-Received: by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 9D44B24C70; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 23:31:01 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.52] (unknown [10.100.1.52]) by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79A951A19D; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 21:31:00 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: Mojca Miklavec , mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <6faad9f005072608417b09c1c9@mail.gmail.com> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.86.1/993/Tue Jul 26 09:28:36 2005 on mailrelay02 X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on smtp.ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:21633 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:21633 Mojca Miklavec wrote: >1.) I saw \hbox, \vbox, \vtop, \lbox, \cbox, \rbox, \sbox, \tbox, >\bbox on page 106 of cont-eni.pdf. But if I understand it properly, >there's no alternative to LaTeX \parbox command. >1.1.) After grep-ing the LaTeX tree for "\parbox", my disk ran out of space >1.2.) \bTABLE ... \eTABLE seems too complicated to me to be used for >such a simple thing as asking for a paragraph of a certain width, >centered with regard to the current line. > > as always, it's \framed that does the trick: \input tufte \framed[location=middle,align=center]{what\\is a\\parbox} \input tufte Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------