Re: Page-spanning box

[email protected] (Ludovic Courtès)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.type-setting.lout
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

Mark Summerfield <[email protected]> writes:

> On a new topic: d'you know if it is possible to have a
> page-break-spanning box?
>
> I have a definition, let's call it @Get, that reads in lines from
> external files via @Pipe. So I have this kind of thing:
>
> @LD @Box @Get{....}
>
> But sometimes this is too big for the page & lout scales; what I'd
> really like is for the box to span the page break.
>
> I've also tried
>
> @LD @Tbl aformat{@Cell A} { @Rowa A{@Get{...}}}
>
> but tables won't break inside a row.

I think I used tables in the past when I needed such a thing, but yeah,
it’s probably not optimal.

Thanks,
Ludo’.
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