I'm trying to put a piece of text in a partial frame that's meant to look like square brackets aligned with the left and right edges of the textblock. I tried to use two \framed constructions inside each other, the outer one with width=textwidth and negative toffset and boffset, the inner one with a smaller width, a fat rulethickness and the color of the background, expecting it to erase the outer frame where it's not needed: \color[zier]{% \framed[% align=middle, width=\textwidth, toffset=-4mm, boffset=-4mm, strut=no, ]{% \color[paper]{\framed[% align=middle, width=222mm, % i.e. \textwidth-4mm toffset=6mm, boffset=5mm, rulethickness=5mm ]{% \color[zier]{\tfd \strut Here's the text that is menat to look important; its length/number of lines is undetermined.\strut} }}% }% }% ... but it doesn't work. Apparently the inner frame is drawn before the outer one. Putting the wider frame inside the narrower results in alignment problems -- due to the overfull hbox, I presume. Is there a simple solution in ConTeXt that I haven't found yet, or will I have to try some plain TeX box magic myself? Thanks -- Thomas