On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 02:16:41PM +0200, Kornel Benko spake thusly: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > On Samstag, 27. September 2003 10:02, Martin Vermeer wrote: > > For your benevolent consideration :-) > > > > I like this feature very much. Good work Martin, IMHO.
Thanks Kornel.
> What I have seen so far ...
> Empty boxes have minimal width, all other boxes have the maximal column width.
> (Or the width of the enclosing minipage, respectively)
Yes... you need almost always a parbox/minipage inside. You can
manually set the width however, which will work either though the
parbox/minipage width, or the \framebox{\makebox[...] width parameter
(which can be "special").
Yes I know, it is a bit weird paradigm, but this is the way to give
access to most LaTeX box features without a very messy UI. If there is
a better way, I haven't found it. (And yes, it is silly that fancybox
doesn't itself provide for creating a (oval/shadow/...)box at
column or text width. But that's the reality of now.)
> Using the boxes without the enclosing minipage seems to be nearly never
> intended. (Try to use it inside a table for example)
Actually it is an *internal* minipage (i.e. the box defining the
frame, be it framebox, ovalbox etc,... or nothing, is on the outside;
parbox, minipage or nothing is on the inside.) Or am I
misunderstanding you?
> Getting used to it, it is very enjoyable.
Thanks!
> Kornel
- Martin
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