pagebreak in parbox or minipage

Herbert Voss

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Apr 11, 2000, 3:00:00 AM4/11/00

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i have

\newcommand{\Out}[1]
{\vspace{0.2cm}\noindent\tt\footnotesize\fbox{\begin{minipage}{1.0\columnwidth}
#1%
\end{minipage}\normalsize\rm\vspace{0.2cm}}}

for a framed text. this works fine, but when this minipage
is longer than the rest of the page, latex inserts a newpage.
is it possible that latex puts the text as much as possible
on the first page with a frame and the rest on the next page?

thanks
Herbert

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Andreas zum Winkel

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Apr 11, 2000, 3:00:00 AM4/11/00

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> for a framed text. this works fine, but when this minipage
> is longer than the rest of the page, latex inserts a newpage.
> is it possible that latex puts the text as much as possible
> on the first page with a frame and the rest on the next page?

Hi,

this is discussed in the actual thread "breaking minipages across pages" in
this group.

Peter writes:
> LaTeX does not break boxes (e.g., parbox, minipage) across pages.
>peter.r...@boeing.com

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Vepxistqaosani

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Apr 11, 2000, 3:00:00 AM4/11/00

to Herbert Voss

Your problem is slightly different from the one discussed in the other thread. What
you are asking for cannot be done easily -- and it cannot be done well with TeX
alone.

I suspect that pstricks might help you; you might also try searching CTAN for
"frame".

I should be interested to hear of other solutions; mine are (of course!) in plain
TeX and involve home-grown PostScript \special's.

Fred

Herbert Voss wrote:

> i have
>
> \newcommand{\Out}[1]
> {\vspace{0.2cm}\noindent\tt\footnotesize\fbox{\begin{minipage}{1.0\columnwidth}
> #1%
> \end{minipage}\normalsize\rm\vspace{0.2cm}}}
>

> for a framed text. this works fine, but when this minipage
> is longer than the rest of the page, latex inserts a newpage.
> is it possible that latex puts the text as much as possible
> on the first page with a frame and the rest on the next page?
>

mstrach

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Apr 12, 2000, 3:00:00 AM4/12/00

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On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Vepxistqaosani wrote:

<SNIP>

>I should be interested to hear of other solutions; mine are (of course!) in plain
>TeX and involve home-grown PostScript \special's.
>
>Fred
>
>
>Herbert Voss wrote:

<SNIP>

>> +----------+
>> | text |
>> | |
>> pagebreak here
>> | |
>> | the rest|
>> +----------+
>>
>> thanks
>> Herbert

Could:

\begin{longtable}{ | p{ --somewidth--} | }

be used as a bit of a cheat?

Mike

James Kilfiger

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Apr 12, 2000, 3:00:00 AM4/12/00

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Vepxistqaosani wrote:
> What you are asking for [broken \fbox] cannot be done easily -- and it

> cannot be done well with TeX alone.
>

>I should be interested to hear of other solutions; mine are (of
>course!) in plain TeX and involve home-grown PostScript \special's.

Two posibilities:
Hacking changebar. This probably ought to be done
anyway, the changebar internals could be used for all sorts of `break
the rule over a page' problems.
Omega has a device to put a character at the start of each line (to
allow a style of quoting with guillmets at the start of each line of the
quote) This could be hijacked for making vertical rules that break over
pages.

James

Herbert Voss

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Apr 12, 2000, 3:00:00 AM4/12/00

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thank you all,

i tried listings-package with extendedchars=true and language={}
and it works