Thanks to all people who were so kind to react to this message.

It turned out to be a problem to be characterized by "Oh, silly me", since I seem to have completely forgotten about the default offset for framedtexts not being zero.
Therefore: the most simple solution (and I really think I should have thought of it much earlier) was to use \startframedtext[offset=0pt].

with humbly regards
Hans van der Meer

On Jul 2, 2007, at 17:43, Hans van der Meer wrote:

I would like to shrink the whitespace at the top and the bottom of a framedtext.
Like thus:

not this                         but this
------------------------------      ------------------------------
|                            |      |                            |
|                            |      |   abcd                     |
|   abcd                     |      |   abcd                     |
|   abcd                     |      |                            |
|                            |      ------------------------------
|                            |
------------------------------

I have tried a lot of things with [before, after, top, bottom].
Although [depthcorrection=off] shaves somewhat off the whitespace, it is not much nor am I sure if this is on the right track; and it is not parametrized.

Someone knows the trick?