> On 20 Apr 2019, at 15:46, Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 20 Apr 2019, Gilles Waeber wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> I'm trying to create a style with a left border in the margin.
>> 
>> I want the border to start and stop with the text. For the bottom I used
>> framedepth but the bar still goes too far on the top?
>> 
>> \showframe
>> \showboxes
>> \defineframedtext[leftbartext][
>> 	width=broad,
>> 	frame=off,
>> 	leftframe=on,
>> 	rulethickness=.5ex,
>> 	offset=-\framedparameter{rulethickness},
>> 	frameoffset=\dimexpr\leftmargindistance +
>> \framedparameter{rulethickness}\relax,
>> 	framedepth=-\framedparameter{frameoffset},
>> ]
>> \starttext
>> \startleftbartext
>> \input knuth
>> \stopleftbartext
>> \stoptext
> 
> Framed does not provide enough hooks to control the spaces. For something like this, you can also use metapost to draw the background:
> 
> \showframe
> \showboxes
> \defineframedtext[leftbartext][
>        width=broad,
>        frame=off,
>        rulethickness=.5ex,
>        background=mp:offsetframe,
>        offset=overlay,
> ]
> 
> \defineoverlay[mp:offsetframe][\useMPgraphic{mp:offsetframe}]
> 
> \startuseMPgraphic{mp:offsetframe}
>  draw leftboundary OverlayBox
>        xshifted -(LeftMarginDistance + 0.5OverlayLineWidth)
>        withpen pencircle scaled OverlayLineWidth;
>  setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox;
> \stopuseMPgraphic
> 
> \starttext
> \startleftbartext
> \input knuth
> \stopleftbartext
> \stoptext
> 
> 
> Aditya
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