[texhax] help

[Aditya Mahajan]

On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, SHELTRAW, DANIEL wrote:

> Hello LaTex users
>
> I am trying to find a way to "set apart" the details of some mathematical
> calculations that I would like to appear in the body of a document (rather
> than in an appendix for example). My first attempt was using the following
> sort of thing
>
> \begin{tabular}{|p{15.5cm}|}
> \hline
> foo foo foo
> \hline
> \end{tabular}
>
> This puts all the foo (which can be as much as a page long) in a box which
> distinguishes its contents from the rest of the text body. The problem with
> this is that the foo can not be split between pages easily.
>
> Does any body have an idea how to set apart details of a calculation
> from the rest of the body of text.

Have a look at framed.sty from ctan. It allows frames to be broken 
across pages.

Aditya

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