Re: Boxing Text

[Richard Schoeller]

Dave,

It will box the next molecule.  Certainly a quoted string qualifies. 
More complicated things can too.  For example:

\markup \box \column << { "string 1" } { "string 2" } >>

Will put a box around the whole construct, something like this:

+----------+
| string 1 |
| string 2 |
+----------+

The one thing I will say, I am not happy with the spacing that I got
there.  I think that someone who is better with fine tweaking might get
a more esthetic box.

Dick

On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 13:16, David Raleigh Arnold wrote:
> On Thursday 03 July 2003 12:41 pm, Dick Schoeller wrote:
> > I've worked up a little cleaner way.  It is done by hacking
> > molecule.scm and new-markup.scm.  The diffs are attached.  By
> > applying these you can just use the markup "\box" and you get a box
> > around a portion of your markup.
> >
> > On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 11:47, David Raleigh Arnold wrote:
> > > I found a way to do this just now.  I can't figure out
> > > what I did with the original post.  You just have to
> > > find \framebox instead of \box* or \textbox or any of the
> > > other obvious suspects.
> > >
> > > Again, the "Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX2e" is online and
> > > free for the downloading and indispensible.
> > >
> > > a'^" "^"$\\!\\!\\!\\!$\\huge{\\framebox{Frame this!}}"
> > >
> > > DaveA
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> What portion of the markup is boxed?  The next word?
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