On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 04:10:42PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes spake thusly: > > >>>>> "Martin" == Martin Vermeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> - set a width (which could be columnwidth) > > Martin> The two most popular widths will be (corrected) \columnwidth > Martin> and "adaptive" (i.e., don't put a parbox inside the fbox). I > Martin> was considering at least having that in the Box dialog. But > Martin> why not user-specified width as well. > > Could also be fixed width or 'twice the natural size of this text' > (like latex2e allows) or 'make the box square'...
Sure. Some easy, some not so easy. But ask the UI folks first :-) > >> - maybe select between minipage and parbox, although I am not sure > >> what the real advantages of parbox are here. > > Martin> Hmmm, would you recommend a minipage instead? What are the > Martin> benefits/disadvantages? Yes, why not allow both (but if we > Martin> don't quite understand the difference, will the user?) > > From what I read in the latex 2.09 manual (could somebody check out > the 2e version), minipages allow footnotes, list environments, > tabular. Parbox does not allow this. I am not sure whether parbox has > advantages of it own, though. OK, so minipage must be provided at least. > >> I do not like much the fact that you have chosen arbitrarily how a > >> box should look like. I think that you should let the user choose > >> freely what kind of boxing he wants. > > Martin> Patience my dear... > > Well, I am willing to be patient, but I have to admit that the latex > code you output cutrrently is awful, and I'd rather not see this > committed ;) > > JMarc Getting better all the time... see attached. - Martin
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