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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label breakbox</title>
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<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.
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<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>)
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