From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Framed text and page breaks
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 12:22:10 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.03.1409021221080.28732@hzvpu.rqh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5405EE32.3020303@gmail.com>
If you just want to reduce the width of paragraphs, use the narrower
environment. If you also want frames or background colors that break
across page, use the background environment. If you want floats and
parshape to also work, use the textbackground environment.
Aditya
On Tue, 2 Sep 2014, Keith McKay wrote:
> Colleagues
>
> I've been struggling today with trying to change paragraph width of selected
> paragraphs within the body text of a novel I'm typesetting. I thought that
> the way to do this would be by framing the text that I would like to reduce
> the paragraph width off. However the framed text doesn't seem to honour page
> breaks and just seems to disappear off the page bottom. Also the framed text
> starts on a new page which I do not want to happen.
>
> Any suggestions on how I may go about solving this problem?
>
> Best Wishes
> Keith McKay
>
> Here is an example tex file which shows these effects:
> \definepapersize[book][width=5.06in,height=7.81in]
>
> \setuppapersize [book][]
>
> \setuplayout
> [width=middle,backspace=12.5mm,cutspace=12.5mm,height=middle,topspace=12.7mm,bottomspace=12.7mm]
>
> \starttext
>
> \dorecurse{2}{\input ward \blank}
>
> \midaligned
>
> \framed[frame=off,width=5cm,align={width,nothyphenated,verytolerant,stretch},before=\blank]{\dorecurse{4}{\input
> ward \blank}}
>
> \dorecurse{2}{\input ward \blank}
>
> \stoptext
>
>
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