Re: framed texts and other "minipage"

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Maurice Diamantini (dom) wrote:

>
> Le 7 janv. 06 � 13:50, Hans Hagen a �crit :
>
>>> 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
>
>
> Why is it not possible to simply use the \framed command (with some  
> magic option to
> put text into it) to do the obove thing?
>    \startframed[width=.5\textwidth, xxxx]
>        \input tufte
>    \stopframed
>    \startframed[width=.5\textwidth, xxxx]
>        \input zapf
>    \stopframed


in most cases you can use framed (make sure that you set 'align' to 
something in order to enter vmode)

framedtext is a bit more clever and handles some spacing issues

>
> If it is impossible, is there any equivalent to de minipage or  
> \parbox LaTeX
> equivalent?

i dunno what those are, vboxes?

Hans