Re: Decorative frame for enumeration

I think, that it is a good approach. Why there is this misalignment I do
not understand. As a temporary fix you can put the toffset of the
framedtext of the enumeration to -1.25pt.

Willi

On Jun 13 2026, at 8:45 pm, Jethro Djan <[email protected]> wrote:

> I am going for a design I saw in a high school math text book for
> typesetting examples. 
>  
> But my implementation leaves a little vertical space at the top above
> the enumeration title. Also, I have to manually shift the frame. If I
> zoom in, I still see that the frame for the header title and the frame
> it is contained in are not aligned.
>  
> Is there a better way to do this?
>  
> MWE:
>  
> \startuseMPgraphic{WEFrame}
>     numeric w, h ;
>     w := OverlayWidth ; h := OverlayHeight ;
>     fill (0,0)--(0,h)--(w,h)--(w,0)--cycle withcolor (.93, .96, 1.0) ;
>     setbounds currentpicture to unitsquare xyscaled(w,h) ;
> \stopuseMPgraphic
>  
> \defineoverlay[WEFrame][\useMPgraphic{WEFrame}]
>  
> \defineenumeration[WorkedEx]
> \setupenumeration[WorkedEx][%
>     alternative=top,
>     text={Worked Example},
>     inbetween={\blank[small]},
>     before={\startframedtext[
>         frame=off,
>         background=WEFrame,
>         offset=0pt,
>         loffset=8pt,
>         boffset=4pt,
>         width=max,
>     ]},
>     after={\stopframedtext},
>     headcommand=\WETitleCommand,
> ]
>  
> \startuseMPgraphic{WETitleFrame}
>     numeric w, h ;
>     w := OverlayWidth ; h := OverlayHeight ;
>     fill (0,0)--(0,h)--(w,h)--(w,0)--cycle withcolor (.2, .4, .75) ;
>     setbounds currentpicture to unitsquare xyscaled(w,h) ;
> \stopuseMPgraphic
>  
> \defineoverlay[WETitleFrame][\useMPgraphic{WETitleFrame}]
>  
> \define[1]\WETitleCommand{%
>     \hskip-8pt
>     \framed[frame=off,%
>         width=\dimexpr\textwidth-25pt\relax,%
>         frame=off,%
>         offset=4pt,%
>         strut=no,
>         background=WETitleFrame,%
>         foregroundcolor=white,
>         align=flushleft,%
>     ]{#1}
> }
>  
> \starttext
>  
> \startWorkedEx
> Take the sequence
>     \startformula
>         2, 8, 14, 20, 26, \ldots
>     \stopformula
> \stopWorkedEx
>  
> \stoptext
>  
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