Hi,
here is what I am trying to do. I want parts of my document to be "separated" (for lack of a better word) from the rest of the text. Think of a history book that has original letters or speeches from the time in a separate box. Not actually part of the text but providing additional detail or "fluff".
I think that fancybox has what I am looking for... but I am not sure how to get it to work. The ctan website says this: "Save the file fancybox.sty in a directory, which is part of your
local TeX tree.
Then do not forget to run texhash to update this tree."
And I have no idea what any of this means.
Another thing I would like to do is use a different font for my new environment. How do I do that?
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- Stefan Kottwitz
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Hi!
I think tcolorbox may be a very good choice.
That's only needed if you do would bout use a package manager for installing. Do you use TeX Live or MiKTeX?
I suggest, at first definitely decide which package you would like to use. Then create a box layout with it. Finally you could add something for the font. If I would post something for a different font in some new environment, that would need to be adapted to the box environment anyway.
Stefan
bertibott wrote:I think that fancybox has what I am looking for.
I think tcolorbox may be a very good choice.
bertibott wrote:"Save the file fancybox.sty in a directory, which is part of your
local TeX tree. Then do not forget to run texhash to update this tree."
And I have no idea what any of this means.
That's only needed if you do would bout use a package manager for installing. Do you use TeX Live or MiKTeX?
bertibott wrote:Another thing I would like to do is use a different font for my new environment.
I suggest, at first definitely decide which package you would like to use. Then create a box layout with it. Finally you could add something for the font. If I would post something for a different font in some new environment, that would need to be adapted to the box environment anyway.
Stefan
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