Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!unido!tub!astbe!sstern From: sstern@astbe.UUCP (Mister Tvister) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Boxing problem with LaTeX Keywords: TeX LaTeX Message-ID: <824@astbe.UUCP> Date: 25 Sep 89 12:03:52 GMT Organization: GEI Software Technik Berlin, Germany Lines: 23 I would like to hear from LaTeX users who have successfully tackled the following: In a report style text recourse is occasionally made to examples, which appear with the distinctions granted them by \begin{verbatim} ... \end{verbatim}, that is, in a different font sandwiched between appropriately large slabs of vertical whitespace. There are doubtless other methods of letting blocks of text stand out from their context but "verbatim" (or something equivalent) will be required in the common event where line filling (because something messy like a terminal session is being described) must be temporarily suspended. One should like to further isolate these examples from their surroundings using boxes. A boxed example has a line frame around it with narrow blank margins, inside and outside the frame on all four sides. The frame will accordingly be as long as a text line and approximately as high as the block manipulated internally by the "verbatim" mechanism. I am no (La)TeX whiz but could also not discern in the LaTeX reference book any means to accomplish this. In fact, I didn't even find a convincing TeX starting point since the most general methods of box drawing seem always to involve absolute co-ordinates and examples, unless one relegates them to an unhappy existence as figures in an appendix, are necessarily anchored by context.