Hans,
Thanks for your suggestion, but in the meantime I worked hard to find
a solution and now do a framedtext within a framed text.
Calculating the width and height of the inner framedtext from the
surrounding one's offset and the margin wanted. After puzzling out
that "location=middle" can put the inner framedtext centered it seems
to work for me. But it is a bit more work than the solution you are
showing me here; surely I will try your suggestion because it seems
so much simpler. I must admit I would not have found out on my own
about the two uses of \hsize.
As for your question: "can you put that in the wiki?" I have not the
faintest idea of how to put things in a "wiki". Not even do I
understand the phenomenon "wiki".
yours sincerely,
dr. H. van der Meer
On Feb 28, 2006, at 2:42, Hans Hagen wrote:
> Hans van der Meer wrote:
>> A nasty problem arises when I try to enclose columns into a
>> framedtext and at the same time want to typeset it narrower inside
>> the frame.
>>
>> 1. framedtext: columns will not typeset, simplecolumns does
>> 2. narrower: columns honors narrowing, simplecolumns does not.
>>
>> Now I am caught between two impossibilities.
>> Is it an option that simplecolumns will also be honoring
>> startnarrower..stopnarrower?
>> Is there another, simple solution?
>>
> \framed[width=\hsize]\bgroup
> \startnarrower
> \setlocalhsize \hsize\localhsize
> \startsimplecolumns
> \input tufte \par
> \input tufte\par
> \stopsimplecolumns
> \stopnarrower
> \egroup
>
> - when no width is given, framed will to to find the best fit
> - you set the hsize according to the narrower before the columns
>
> can you put that in the wiki?
>
> Hans
>
>
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