> I want to produce a latex document template that looks similar to > professional books' templates. That is, with notes bounded by a box of > different color and having a picture on the top of the box. There's a book > series with ants teaching you java and C++ with many examples for such a > template. > there are three elements I don't know how to implement by latex > > 1. bounding a piece of text, that may span across more than one page, > with box. I'm not sure about the spanning more than one page part.
> 2. Colouring a box with gradient color. Alternatively, setting a > background image to the box You can make nice coloured, gradient boxes using the pgf package http://sourceforge.net/projects/pgf In the manual, there are examples of placing text on such backgrounds. > 3. changing a text so that it'll appear vertically instead of > horizontally there is a package called rotating that does this. do a search on ctan. Jason -- Jason Friedman Ph.D. Student Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. Home page: http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~jason ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
