Re: Long code samples in shaded table

2009-12-02 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 11:28 +0100 2/12/09, Klaus Daube wrote: How about this idea: - Convert all lines (paragraphs) of the code example to a table (one paragraph becoming one row. - Use a table format with no horizontal ruling between the rows. - The automatic breakting between the rows should be no problem. That

RE: Long code samples in shaded table

2009-12-02 Thread Combs, Richard
Steve Rickaby wrote: At 11:28 +0100 2/12/09, Klaus Daube wrote: How about this idea: - Convert all lines (paragraphs) of the code example to a table (one paragraph becoming one row. - Use a table format with no horizontal ruling between the rows. - The automatic breakting between the

RE: Long code samples in shaded table

2009-12-02 Thread Combs, Richard
I wrote: My Code pgf format is 9 pt with 12 pt line spacing, and there's no space above or below the pgf. 12 - 9 = 3. So Cell Margins Top (on the Table Cell properties tab) is set to 3.0 pt (and Bottom is 0 pt). Bingo. Code text in two adjacent rows is spaced exactly the same as in two

RE: Long code samples in shaded table

2009-12-02 Thread Steve Rickaby
Richard... thanks for this. Yes, this sounds like the way to go... but tomorrow now, as it's 6:30 pm here. -- Steve ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To

RE: Long code samples in shaded table

2009-12-02 Thread Fred Ridder
...@daube.ch; framers@lists.frameusers.com From: srick...@wordmongers.demon.co.uk Subject: Re: Long code samples in shaded table At 11:28 +0100 2/12/09, Klaus Daube wrote: How about this idea: - Convert all lines (paragraphs) of the code example to a table (one paragraph becoming one row

RE: Long code samples in shaded table

2009-12-02 Thread Combs, Richard
Fred Ridder wrote: If you define a table format with the Top and Bottom settings for Default Cell Margins set to 0 pts, the table will have no affect whatsoever on the line spacing that you define for your code listing paragraph style. Piece of cake. Not quite, Fred. If you do only that, FM

RE: Long code samples in shaded table

2009-12-02 Thread Fred Ridder
Oops. Right you are, Richard. My bad. But I could have sworn that my approach worked for me in the past. I must be getting early symptoms of what's-his-name's disease... -Fred Ridder Subject: RE: Long code samples in shaded table Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 12:09:30 -0700 From: richard.co

Long code samples in shaded table

2009-12-02 Thread Klaus Daube
On 1 Dec 2009 at 9:48, Steve Rickaby wrote: > As an aside, I think a special torment in Hell should be reserved for > software textbook authors who insist on including code samples that are > longer than a single page. If they fall in the text flow there's no > problem, but for some books we set

Long code samples in shaded table

2009-12-02 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 11:28 +0100 2/12/09, Klaus Daube wrote: >How about this idea: >- Convert all lines (paragraphs) of the code example to a table (one paragraph >becoming one >row. >- Use a table format with no horizontal ruling between the rows. >- The automatic breakting between the rows should be no problem.

Long code samples in shaded table

2009-12-02 Thread Fred Ridder
Oops. Right you are, Richard. My bad. But I could have sworn that my approach worked for me in the past. I must be getting early symptoms of what's-his-name's disease... -Fred Ridder > Subject: RE: Long code samples in shaded table > Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 12:09:30 -0700 > From: rich