\parbox, \framed, ... (was: Strange behaviour of \bTABLE ... \eTABLE)
Hans Hagen wrote:
Mojca Miklavec wrote:
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\documentclass{article} \begin{document} a box with a table: \fbox{\begin{tabular}[c]{l}1\\2\\3\end{tabular}}\par
a midaligned parbox: \parbox[c]{1em}{1 2 3} \end{document}
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^^^^ watch the \\ ! ! ! !
Actually, "\\" is a part of \fbox{\begin{tabular}[c]{l}1\\2\\3\end{tabular}}\par while I was talking about typesetting a midaligned parbox: \parbox[c]{1em}{1 2 3} So I have to say: no, there's no "\\" present in "\parbox[c]{1em}{1 2 3}". But please forget about different line-braking than in LaTeX \parbox. It may be that different parameters for penalties are set anyway. I mainly wrote this because of the problems in live.contextgarden.net which is not fixed yet (see http://contextgarden.net/Vertically_centred). However, some other questions arised here: 1.) I saw \hbox, \vbox, \vtop, \lbox, \cbox, \rbox, \sbox, \tbox, \bbox on page 106 of cont-eni.pdf. But if I understand it properly, there's no alternative to LaTeX \parbox command. 1.1.) After grep-ing the LaTeX tree for "\parbox", my disk ran out of space 1.2.) \bTABLE ... \eTABLE seems too complicated to me to be used for such a simple thing as asking for a paragraph of a certain width, centered with regard to the current line. So would it be possible to implement \parbox in ConTeXt (or if someone can point me to an already existing command). The LaTeX definition is in tex\latex\base\latex.ltx, line 4692 (at least in my version). It does not have to have the same syntax, but at least the basic functionality. I also often need some stuff to be centered vertically, for example [big image] ----> some arrows and text ----> [big image] I use \bTABLE ... \eTABLE or \vcenter for that, but it's not the most perfect way of doing it. 2.) Is there any *neutral* version of a \framed command? To explain what I want to achive, an example is probably most illustrative: \starttext Hasselt $\displaystyle{\rm is: \matrix{\rm nice\cr\rm sunny\cr\rm domestic}}$, but the houses there \framed{$\displaystyle{\rm are: \matrix{\rm too\ high\cr\rm too\ bricky}}$} \stoptext Thank you, Mojca
Hi Mojca, [...]
anyway. I mainly wrote this because of the problems in live.contextgarden.net which is not fixed yet (see
They should be fixed now. Sorry for the delay. Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki and more: http://contextgarden.net
Mojca Miklavec wrote:
1.) I saw \hbox, \vbox, \vtop, \lbox, \cbox, \rbox, \sbox, \tbox, \bbox on page 106 of cont-eni.pdf. But if I understand it properly, there's no alternative to LaTeX \parbox command. 1.1.) After grep-ing the LaTeX tree for "\parbox", my disk ran out of space 1.2.) \bTABLE ... \eTABLE seems too complicated to me to be used for such a simple thing as asking for a paragraph of a certain width, centered with regard to the current line.
as always, it's \framed that does the trick: \input tufte \framed[location=middle,align=center]{what\\is a\\parbox} \input tufte Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
Hans Hagen wrote:
Mojca Miklavec wrote:
1.) I saw \hbox, \vbox, \vtop, \lbox, \cbox, \rbox, \sbox, \tbox, \bbox on page 106 of cont-eni.pdf. But if I understand it properly, there's no alternative to LaTeX \parbox command. 1.1.) After grep-ing the LaTeX tree for "\parbox", my disk ran out of space 1.2.) \bTABLE ... \eTABLE seems too complicated to me to be used for such a simple thing as asking for a paragraph of a certain width, centered with regard to the current line.
as always, it's \framed that does the trick:
\input tufte \framed[location=middle,align=center]{what\\is a\\parbox} \input tufte
Thank you a lot. I didn't know the location=middle option (yupi, no need for \vcenter any more :). Without align=, \framed behaves pretty much like a \hbox. So once I unsuccessfully tried \crlf and \\ inside \framed a couple of times, I gave up, forgetting about some nice examples in the manual. But how do I get rid of the blank line in this example: \framed [align=flushleft] {\typefile{tufte.tex}} Thank you, Mojca
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