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+<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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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 &ldquo;lose&rdquo; 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&rsquo;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>