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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-breakbox.html b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-breakbox.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..6d2d0339c93 --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-breakbox.html @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +<head> +<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label breakbox</title> +</head><body> +<h3>Breaking boxes of text</h3> +<p/>(La)TeX boxes may not be broken, in ordinary usage: once you’ve +typeset something into a box, it will stay there, and the box will jut +out beyond the side or the bottom of the page if it doesn’t fit in the +typeset area. +<p/>If you want a substantial portion of your text to be framed (or +coloured), the restriction starts to seem a real imposition. +Fortunately, there are ways around the problem. +<p/>The <i>framed</i> package provides <code>framed</code> and +<code>shaded</code> environments; both put their content into +something which looks like a framed (or coloured) box, but which +breaks as necessary at page end. The environments “lose” footnotes, +marginpars and head-line entries, and will not work with +<i>multicol</i> or other column-balancing macros. The +<i>memoir</i> class includes the functionality of the +<i>framed</i> package. +<p/>The <i>boites</i> package provides a <code>breakbox</code> +environment; examples of its use may be found in the distribution, and +the package’s <i>README</i> file contains terse documentation. The +environments may be nested, and may appear inside +<code>multicols</code> environments; however, floats, footnotes and +marginpars will be lost. +<p/>For Plain TeX users, the facilities of the <i>backgrnd</i> +package may be useful; this package subverts the output routine to +provide vertical bars to mark text, and the macros are clearly marked +to show where coloured backgrounds may be introduced (this requires +<i>shade</i>, which is distributed as tex macros and +device-independent Metafont for the shading). The author of +<i>backgrnd</i> claims that the package works with LaTeX 2.09, but +there are reasons to suspect that it may be unstable working with +current LaTeX. +<dl> +<dt><tt><i>backgrnd.tex</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/generic/misc/backgrnd.tex">macros/generic/misc/backgrnd.tex</a> +<dt><tt><i>boites.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/boites.zip">macros/latex/contrib/boites</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/boites.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/boites/">browse</a>) +<dt><tt><i>framed.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/misc/framed.sty">macros/latex/contrib/misc/framed.sty</a> +<dt><tt><i>memoir.cls</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/memoir.zip">macros/latex/contrib/memoir</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/memoir.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/memoir/">browse</a>) +<dt><tt><i>shade.tex</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/generic/shade.zip">macros/generic/shade</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/generic/shade.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/generic/shade/">browse</a>) +</dl> +<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=breakbox">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=breakbox</a> +</body> |