Re: Is it possible to get the effect of splitting a box across page boundaries?

[Mark Summerfield]

On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 10:10:23 +1100
Jeff Kingston <address@hidden> wrote:
> Mark,
> 
> I got it working pretty darn well with
> 
>     @Floater
>       @OnePage { No }
>       @Location { Display }
>       @Format { @Box paint { lightgrey } @Body }
>     {
>       ...
>     }
> 
> The sticking point seems to have been the @OnePage option,
> which we both forgot about, but which is there in the guide.

Yes, I completely forgot about @OnePage--and using it has solved the
problem!

For me, @Floater has turned out to be one of the most useful symbols.

Thanks!

> Incidentally, it's my intention for Nonpareil that all
> symbols, like @Box, that enclose documents should behave
> this way by default, so that boxing a few words within
> a paragraph will produce two boxes if the words break
> across two lines etc.  Font and underlining symbols
> do it now in Lout but most other symbols don't.

Yes, but when........;-)


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