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From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Box of certain width (and height?) containing a paragraph of text?
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 16:59:00 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <nycvar.YAK.7.77.849.2003301653540.440620@nqv-guvaxcnq> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DF126ACF-0549-4D83-8AE2-19658B812272@rna.nl>

> Does ConTeXt have a command to create a (non framed) box from a line of 
> text, where the text is typeset as a paragraph inside a box of certain 
> size?

You can always fall back to plain tex, but I think that the \framed... 
interface is nicer:

\starttext
\vbox{\hsize 3cm \input ward\relax}
\stoptext

Aditya
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2020-03-30 20:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-30 19:45 Gerben Wierda
2020-03-30 20:37 ` Willi Egger
2020-03-30 20:59 ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]

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