[texhax] help

[SHELTRAW, DANIEL]

Nice. Works well. Thanks Aditya.


On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 00:11:20 -0400 (EDT)
  Aditya Mahajan <adityam at umich.edu> wrote:
> 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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> Aditya Mahajan, EECS Systems, University of Michigan
> http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~adityam || Ph: 7342624008

Daniel Sheltraw MD PhD
Henry J. Wheeler Brain Imaging Center
University of California, Berkeley