Re: Minipage borders and shading

2001-12-10 Thread Steve Litt
Thanks for all the help, Dekel and everyone else. Check out the really nice Note, Tip and Warning environments you've helped me create: % ### Implements shading, 80% width, and indented paragraphs. ### \newenvironment{shadowbox}[1]% {% ~\\[-1in]% \setlength\fboxsep{4pt}% \definecolor{sha

Re: Minipage borders and shading

2001-12-09 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 06:13:21PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > On Friday 07 December 2001 08:29, Dekel Tsur wrote: > > Framed does not redefine the minipage command. > > It define new environments framed and shaded which you should use instead > > of your note_l, namely your layout file should cont

Re: Minipage borders and shading

2001-12-07 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 07 December 2001 08:29, Dekel Tsur wrote: > Framed does not redefine the minipage command. > It define new environments framed and shaded which you should use instead > of your note_l, namely your layout file should contain > > Style Note > LatexType Environment > LatexName framed > ..

Re: Minipage borders and shading

2001-12-07 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 05:04:24PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > > I got your code to work, using both a colorbox and an fbox to have a shaded > bordered box with a light (95%) gray. The one thing I couldn't do was get it > to split on page borders. I installed framed.sty, and did \usepackage{fram

Re: Minipage borders and shading

2001-12-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 30 November 2001 07:11, Dekel Tsur wrote: > On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 11:16:42AM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > > Rather than mucking around with \hrulefill, I sure would like to find a > > way to put a border on a minipage, shade a minipage, or both. Any ideas? > > For frame: > \newenvironmen

Re: Re: Minipage borders and shading

2001-12-05 Thread Guenter Milde
On Wed, 5 Dec 2001 20:46:48 -0500 wrote Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Lastly, I downloaded framed.sty because it would be wonderful to have notes > > span pages now that I have shading, but no matter where I put framed.sty, > > my \usepackage{framed} produced an error saying it couldn't fin

Re: Minipage borders and shading

2001-12-05 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 05 December 2001 19:58, Steve Litt wrote: > On Friday 30 November 2001 07:11, Dekel Tsur wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 11:16:42AM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > > > Rather than mucking around with \hrulefill, I sure would like to find a > > > way to put a border on a minipage, shade

Re: Minipage borders and shading

2001-12-05 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 30 November 2001 07:11, Dekel Tsur wrote: > On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 11:16:42AM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > > Rather than mucking around with \hrulefill, I sure would like to find a > > way to put a border on a minipage, shade a minipage, or both. Any ideas? > > For frame: > \newenvironmen

Re: Minipage borders and shading

2001-11-30 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 11:16:42AM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > Rather than mucking around with \hrulefill, I sure would like to find a way > to put a border on a minipage, shade a minipage, or both. Any ideas? For frame: \newenvironment{note_l}{% \begin{lrbox}{\@tempboxa}% \begin{mini

Minipage borders and shading

2001-11-28 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, My book's notes look like this: Preamble \setlength{\scratchLength}{\leftmargin} \addtolength{\scratchLength}{0.2in} \newenvironment{note_l} {% \center\begin{minipage}{0.90\columnwidth} \setlength{\parskip}{0.5cm}%