[Tugindia] Re: tugindia Digest, Vol 8, Issue 10

[S. Gowtham]

13 August 2003

Hi, 

I would suggest you to use \psframebox command and it comes with lot of
options - you can control the corner curves and the background color &
fill style.
Regards,
Gowtham


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> From: "Abdullah Sowkaar" <texsowks at hotmail.com>
> Subject: [Tugindia] Colour Background
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> Dear Friends,
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> I need your suggestions for the following
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> 1. A text should come inside a oval box with colored background.
> 
> 2. How to control  thickness of the borders of ovalbox.
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> 3. Whats the use of \thicklines or \thinlines, where it has been defined and 
> how to control all those things.
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> Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 19:37:21 +0530 (IST)
> From: "E. Krishnan" <ekmath at md5.vsnl.net.in>
> Subject: Re: [Tugindia] About oval box
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> On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Saravanan Chennai wrote:
> 
> > In My document, I need a oval box around a bullet
> > list. Can any one suggest a solution or any ideas.
> 
> If you don't mind PostScript output, you can try the command "\psovalbox" 
> in the "pstricks" package as in
> 
> 	\begin{center}
> 	  \psovalbox{%
>    	    \parbox{0.5\textwidth}{%
>   	      \begin{itemize}
>    	      \item The first item
>    	      \item The second item
>    	      \item The third and last item
>    	      \end{itemize}}}
> 	\end{center}
> 
> Also, if by an ovalbox you don't mean an actual ellipse, but only a frame 
> with rounded corners, you can try the command "\ovalbox" in the "fancybox" 
> package as in
> 
> 	\begin{center}
>   	  \cornersize{5}
>   	  \ovalbox{%
>     	    \parbox{0.5\textwidth}{%
>       	      \begin{itemize}
>       	      \item The first item
>      	      \item The second item
>      	      \item The third and last item
>              \end{itemize}}}
>         \end{center}
> 
> 
> -- 
> Krishnan
> 
> 
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> Message: 3
> Date: 13 Aug 2003 05:56:15 -0000
> From: "Duvvuri Venu Gopal" <venugopal_duvvuri at rediffmail.com>
> Subject: [Tugindia] Ding bats etc.
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> Hello,
> 
> Some time back someone asked how to insert a 'smily'. Recently I 
> found a document in our 'TeX Live CD' supplied by Indian-TUG, 
> which categorized and shown all the available packages and symbols 
> available for TeX. It is a 58 page document named "The 
> Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List" by Scott Pakin. The name of the 
> file is "symbols-letter.pdf".
> 
> This is for information of all interested.
> 
> Thank You,
> 
> D. Venu Gopal
> 
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With regards,
S. Gowtham

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S. Gowtham
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Department of Physics
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