Re: framed texts

[Hans van der Meer <hansm@science.uva.nl>]

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?


yours sincerely,
dr. H. van der Meer