[texhax] framed.sty -- "open" frame across page break

[Lars Madsen]

On 02/28/2012 06:46 PM, Niall Mansfield wrote:
> I want to typset several paragraphs in a frame -- because
> they are not part of the main text.  If I used 'framed.sty',
> when the material breaks across a page, the frame is closed
> at the bottom of this page, and at the start of the next.
> This makes it look like two separate things, rather than a
> single one breaking across a page.
>
> Is there any way to make the frame "open" at the bottom of
> the first page, and at the top of the next (or is there
> another suitable package)?  I.e. so it looks like:
>
> +---+
> |   |
> |   |
>
> <page break>
>
> |   |
> |   |
> +---+
>
> and not
>
> +---+
> |   |
> |   |
> +---+
>
> <page break>
>
> +---+
> |   |
> |   |
> +---+
>
>
> 	Thanks,
> 	Niall
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use the mdframed package

it is IMO a lot easier to use