Aditya Mahajan <adityam <at> umich.edu> writes:
> Here is a simplified picture. Basically, anything inside btex ... etex (or > textext(...) or \sometxt{...}) is in what is known as TeX's horizontal > mode. Think of this as what you will get if you put the same argument in a > \hbox (see the TeXbook or TeX for the impatient for details). To get > multiple lines you need tex to be in the vertical mode, a \vbox. A vanilla > \framed is like a \hbox. Framed with align=normal is like a \vbox. So, for > most purposes you can you \framed. There are some commands that need to > know the width of the box (like \start stop formula). In those cases you > need to specify width=something to \framed. > > Of course, certain objects like floats, footnotes, marginpars, will never > work inside metapost. (I think you can get floats and footnotes to work, > but that will require some hackery) > > Aditya Thanks very much for the explanation. Now I understand much better. I remember reading about the importance of horizontal mode and vertical mode in the Seroul and Levy's book I think. ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________