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Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:

>
> I'm thinking about utilizing border fonts and how to make automatic  
> frames for use with \framed (I guess that's still too hard for me,  
> but let's see...)
>

think backgrounds and leaders:

\def\Border#1#2#3#4#5#6#7#8%
  {\vbox to \overlayheight \bgroup
     \offinterlineskip
     \setbox0=\hbox to \overlaywidth \bgroup
        #1\cleaders\hbox{#2}\hfill#3%
     \egroup
     \setbox2=\hbox to \overlaywidth \bgroup
        #5\cleaders\hbox{#6}\hfill#7%
     \egroup
     \scratchdimen\dimexpr\overlayheight-2\ht0\relax
     \setbox4=\vbox to \scratchdimen \bgroup
        \cleaders\hbox{#8}\vfill
     \egroup
     \setbox6=\vbox to \scratchdimen \bgroup
        \cleaders\hbox{#4}\vfill
     \egroup
     \box0
     \hbox to \overlaywidth{\box4\hfill\box6}%
     \box2
   \egroup}

\def\FakeChar#1{\framed[width=.5cm,height=.5cm,offset=overlay]{#1}}

\defineoverlay
  [border]
  [\Border
    {\FakeChar{\tx LT}}
    {\FakeChar{t}}
    {\FakeChar{\tx RT}}
    {\FakeChar{r}}
    {\FakeChar{\tx RB}}
    {\FakeChar{b}}
    {\FakeChar{\tx LB}}
    {\FakeChar{l}}]

\starttext

\framed[width=4cm,height=3cm,background=border]{}

\stoptext

if needed i can add something like Border to supp-fun or so ...

probably some scaling is involved as well

Hans