On Thu, 05 Feb 2015 22:54:11 +0100 Hans Hagen wrote:

On 2/5/2015 9:38 PM, John Culleton wrote:

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Client has an existing book that I am redoing with many inserted square boxes of text slightly protruding in the margin. Main text wraps around each box. The line around each such box has rounded corners. Is there an example somewhere in the manuals or elsewhere?

\starttext

\defineframed [whatever] [width=1cm, height=1cm, background=color, backgroundcolor=darkblue, foregroundcolor=white, forgroundstyle=bold]

\dorecurse {100} { \starthanging{\whatever{#1}} \input tufte \stophanging } \stoptext

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On 2/5/2015 11:31 PM, John Culleton wrote:

On Thu, 05 Feb 2015 22:54:11 +0100 Hans Hagen wrote:

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On 2/5/2015 9:38 PM, John Culleton wrote:

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Client has an existing book that I am redoing with many inserted square boxes of text slightly protruding in the margin. Main text wraps around each box. The line around each such box has rounded corners. Is there an example somewhere in the manuals or elsewhere?

\starttext

\defineframed [whatever] [width=1cm, height=1cm, background=color, backgroundcolor=darkblue, foregroundcolor=white, forgroundstyle=bold]

\dorecurse {100} { \starthanging{\whatever{#1}} \input tufte \stophanging } \stoptext

And rounded corners?

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