General ⇒ Margins and textboxes

[Blkmage]

1) How do I expand the right and left margins? Sorry if this seems stupid.

2) I want to make textboxes around certain pieces of text but I'm not really sure how to use this function. I have an assignment to create a collection of documents and I wanted to put boxes around wach of the documents as seen here: http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/p ... st_frq.pdf

Thanks.

[phi]

1) How do I expand the right and left margins? Sorry if this seems stupid.

The geometry packages supports setting all kinds of lengths of that kind.

2) I want to make textboxes around certain pieces of text but I'm not really sure how to use this function. I have an assignment to create a collection of documents and I wanted to put boxes around wach of the documents as seen here: http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/p ... st_frq.pdf

Simple frames are possible with the \fbox command. For longer pieces, the framed package is quite useful.

[Blkmage]

Thanks for the reply. How do I control the parameters of fbox though? When I use the command it puts the text I want into a fram but it stretches it across the entire page on one line. I attached the pdf for reference. And this is the code:

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\fbox{\noindent Source: Joseph J. Ellis, \textit{Founding Brothers}, Chapter Two
\\
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\noindent Jefferson assured [Monroe] that he too found the measure [of assumption] repulsive: "But in the present instance I see the necessity of yielding for this time . . . for the sake of the union, and to save us from the greatest of all Calamities."}

[phi]

You can put everything inside the \fbox, including \parboxes and minipage environments. Here is an example using a custom environment:

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\documentclass{article}

\newsavebox\FrameBox
\newenvironment{Frame}{%
  \par\setbox\FrameBox\hbox\bgroup\minipage{0.9\textwidth}\parskip\baselineskip\ignorespaces
}{%
  \endminipage\egroup\fbox{\box\FrameBox}\par
}


\begin{document}

\begin{Frame}
Source: Joseph J. Ellis, \emph{Founding Brothers}, Chapter Two

Jefferson assured [Monroe] that he too found the measure [of assumption] repulsive: ``But in the present instance I see the necessity of yielding for this time \ldots\ for the sake of the union, and to save us from the greatest of all Calamities.''
\end{Frame}

\end{document}