Re: Verbatim typing with numbers inside float

["Stefan Müller" <warrence.stm@gmx.de>]

On 07.10.2010 09:35, Alan BRASLAU wrote:
> On Thursday 07 October 2010 09:19:42 Hans Hagen wrote:
>> On 7-10-2010 12:02, Stefan Müller wrote:
>>
>>> Splitting up long source code in several pieces (one per page) and put
>>> them in separate figures doesn't seem right to me. Setting it as
>>> numbered paragraph? Putting up a fake caption with \placefloatcaption
>>> (which doesn't seem to work in MkIV)? Are there other possiblities of
>>> numbering (by section) more or less big chunks of source code I'm not
>>> thinking of? That would help me very much. Thanks for thinking about
>>> that.
>>
>> you can make your own construct, maybe something with a background
>> (textbackgrounds can cross pages)
>>
> Hello,
>
> I use textbackgrounds to set-off paragraphs,
> for example, here as secondary material.
> It does not float and, indeed, may flow over many pages.
>
> This is a concrete example (to which you could add line numbering):
>
> \definetextbackground [secondary]
> 	[location=paragraph,
> 	background=color,backgroundscreen=middlegray,
> 	leftoffset=0.5cm,rightoffset=0.5cm,
> 	topoffset=.25ex,bottomoffset=.25ex,
> 	before={\blank[small]\switchtobodyfont[script]},
> 	after={\blank[small]},
> 	frame=off]
> \kindofpagetextareas3 % fix from Hans
> % Indeed, there are several internal methods available
> % for managing text areas. Without this fix, the background
> % color bleeds over footnotes and floats external to the
> % secondary material.
>
> \startsecondary
> Here is some less interesting detailed stuff that can be skipped
> if you wish…
> \stopsecondary
>
> Alan

Thanks, this is pretty nice. I'm going to use something like that inside 
an "algorithm enumeration", so I get the number I can reference to. This 
is better than the floating-approach, I think.

Thanks for the ideas,
Stefan.
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