General ⇒ Box with rounded corners

[Chau]

Hi folks!

I've looking for a method to create a box in my document with a grey background colour or something. I want the shape of the box to be rectangular, but with rounded corners and the edges should have their own colour too.

Is this possible? I've seen it used in different books for describing either examples or algorithms.

/Casper

[propell]

The fancybox package is a good place to start:
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Ca ... cybox.html

Other alternatives are listings.sty framed.sty and boites.sty:
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Ca ... oites.html

For really fancy boxes you can try using TikZ or PSTricks. Here is a TikZ example:
http://www.fauskes.net/pgftikzexamples/ ... -and-math/

Unfortunately this only works well if the box fits on a page, since there is no automatic page breaking inside a tikzpicture environment.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Kjell Magne Fauske

[Chau]

The fancybox package is a good place to start:
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Ca ... cybox.html

This works very well, but I can't seem to change the colour of the background. Do you have any ideas for that?

/Casper

[propell]

Unfortunately I don't see any obvious way to set the background color. This thread recommends using framed.sty or boites.sty:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.tex ... e611ce2e2b

Not sure if they support rounded corners...

- Kjell Magne