Re: framed texts

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Hans van der Meer wrote:

>
> On Jan 6, 2006, at 18:20, Peter Rolf wrote:
>
>>> Hans van der Meer wrote:
>>> I want to put to some paragraphs, each as framed text, on one line.
>>> Such as:
>>>
>>> \startframedtext[width=...]
>>>     para 1
>>>     \startitemize
>>>     ....etc
>>> \stopframedtext
>>> \startframedtext[width=...]
>>>     para 2
>>>     \startitemize
>>>     ....etc
>>> \stopframedtext
>>>
>>> I tried some things but the two frames will not come out on one line.
>>> How to do this?
>>>
>> \placesidebyside (context manual p.228) should work. A \hbox is  another
>> option, but maybe too unhandy for this.
>>
>> Greetings, Peter
>
>
> 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