fbox usage
Paladin
to make a box
at the end of each chapter itemizing the open questions. The
following code works, but I
want the "Questions For Future Genealogists" inside the box. I
haven't been able to get
that to work. Any ideas?
\centering\textbf{Questions For Future Genealogists} \\
\fbox{ \begin{Bitemize}[t]
\item Who were John Smith's parents?
\item Presuming Andrew's father was John, was he married to
Elizabeth~Jones, \\
Helen~Wright, both, or neither?
\end{Bitemize}}
\raggedright
Alan Munn
<96a0da12-9073-4392...@s19g2000vbm.googlegroups.com>,
Paladin <palad...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am using MacTex with memoir class to write a genealogy book. I want
> to make a box
> at the end of each chapter itemizing the open questions. The
> following code works, but I
> want the "Questions For Future Genealogists" inside the box. I
> haven't been able to get
> that to work. Any ideas?
I'm surprised your code works at all, since you can't put paragraphs
into an fbox. But Memoir offers a 'framed' environment. So wrap your
whole text (including the title) inside \begin{framed} ... \end{framed}.
>
> \centering\textbf{Questions For Future Genealogists} \\
> \fbox{ \begin{Bitemize}[t]
> \item Who were John Smith's parents?
> \item Presuming Andrew's father was John, was he married to
> Elizabeth~Jones, \\
> Helen~Wright, both, or neither?
> \end{Bitemize}}
> \raggedright
Don't post fragments like this in the future, since then people won't be
able to help you without guessing. (For example, we have no idea what
the Bitemize environment is.) Post minimal examples complete with
\begin{document} ... \end{document} and the minimal preamble needed to
show your problem.
Alan
StefanHöst
> In article
> <96a0da12-9073-4392-8a31-ebe8b44ce...@s19g2000vbm.googlegroups.com>,
Bitemize is part of fancybox. It works more or less as a boxed
itemize. It is based on tabular so it will have the width of the
longest line.
I would use a minipage to frame a list and its title. Something like
\fbox{%
\begin{minipage}{1.0\linewidth}
\centerline{\textbf{Questions For Future Genealogists}}
\begin{itemize}
\item Who were John Smith's parents?
\item Presuming Andrew's father was John, was he married to
Elizabeth~Jones,\\
Helen~Wright, both, or neither?
\end{itemize}
\end{minipage}
}
Here you need to set a fixed width. On the other hand it will have the
same width in all chapters.
You can use Bitemize and cheat with the label to get the title inside
the frame (but it is not very nice):
\fbox{%
\begin{Bitemize}
\item[\rlap{\hspace*{-1ex}\textbf{Questions For Future
Genealogists}}]
\item Who were John Smith's parents?
\item Presuming Andrew's father was John, was he married to
Elizabeth~Jones,\\
Helen~Wright, both, or neither?
\end{Bitemize}
}
Since the title now does not occupy any horizontal space you need at
least one other line that is longer. The title is not centered either.
The spacing of 1ex is just to start the line at the right place (and
right now I am not sure why it is needed).
/Stefan
Peter Flynn
Use the fancybox package for its Sbox tool and the alternative boxes.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{fancybox}
\usepackage[svgnames]{xcolor}
\newenvironment{qbox}[1]{%
\begin{Sbox}%
\begin{minipage}{.666\columnwidth}\raggedright\sffamily
\subsubsection*{\sffamily#1}%
\begin{itemize}}{%
\end{itemize}%
\end{minipage}%
\end{Sbox}
\begin{flushright}% or center, or whatever
\setlength{\fboxsep}{0pt}
\bigskip
\shadowbox{\setlength{\fboxsep}{1em}\colorbox{LightGray}{\TheSbox}}%
\end{flushright}%
}
\begin{document}
\chapter{fbox usage}
I am using MacTex with memoir class to write a genealogy book. I want
to make a box at the end of each chapter itemizing the open questions.
The following code works, but I want the ``Questions For Future
Genealogists'' inside the box. I haven't been able to get that to
work. Any ideas?
\begin{qbox}{Questions For Future Genealogists}
\item Who were John Smith's parents?
\item Presuming Andrew's father was John, was he married to
Elizabeth~Jones, Helen~Wright, both, or neither?
\end{qbox}
\chapter{more}
\end{document}
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
///Peter
Peter Flynn
> Paladin wrote:
>> I am using MacTex with memoir class
I only just noticed that. I don't know if you can do what I wrote with
memoir or if there is some conflict.
///Peter
Konrad Mühler
This looks nice.
But how can I achieve page breaks within such boxes? How can I
distribute a box over many pages?
Thanks
Konrad
Robin Fairbairns
>> Use the fancybox package for its Sbox tool and the alternative boxes.
>
>This looks nice.
>But how can I achieve page breaks within such boxes? How can I
>distribute a box over many pages?
tex can't do such things (it can split vboxes to fit a page, which is
how the output routine works, but it can't split vboxes in the text
stream.
or rather, it might be able, but it would require a serious project to
deliver something that might work sometimes.
start again from scratch, considering the packages listed in
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=breakbox
at a guess, i would think that framed would get somewhere near to what
you want, but it won't be the same sort of animal.
--
Robin Fairbairns, Cambridge
Donald Arseneau
> =?UTF-8?B?S29ucmFkIE3DvGhsZXI=?= <kon...@isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de> writes:
> >> Use the fancybox package for its Sbox tool and the alternative boxes.
> >> [...]
>
> >This looks nice.
> >But how can I achieve page breaks within such boxes? How can I
> >distribute a box over many pages?
> at a guess, i would think that framed would get somewhere near to what
> you want, but it won't be the same sort of animal.
As Robin says, framed.sty, framed environment, answers the original
question. If you are using shadowbox, you can easily define a new
version
that breaks over pages, like
\newenvironment{shadowframe}{%
\def\FrameCommand{\fboxsep=\FrameSep \shadowbox}%
\MakeFramed {\advance\hsize-\width \FrameRestore}}%
{\endMakeFramed}
I don't recognize "Bitemize" , but I guess it is a boxed itemize.
You can just use itemize.
Donald Arseneau
Peter Flynn
You can't. They're *boxes*.
> How can I distribute a box over many pages?
That would be a very bad practice from the point of view of readability
and usability.
However, I know that I was once surprised when the Verbatim environment
from the fancyvrb package did exactly this, preserving the top and side
rules on the first page, and the side and bottom rules on the second page.
But that was (a) in verbatim mode (monospace) and (b) with the text
given literally between the \begin{Verbatim} and \end{Verbatim}, without
it being preformatted in an additional environment as in my previous
example.
FWIW here is an example of it at work. The incantation required to
coerce this into the body font, with relevant formatting, is left as an
exercise to the reader :-)
///Peter
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fancyvrb,lipsum}
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\end{document}