General ⇒ Boxed text which automatically overflows into the next page?

[fliptomato]

Hello everyone -- I've been writing a long document and wanted to include boxed text insertions for tangential discussions, like "info boxes." There are many ways to do this and most of them work fine, but I always run into a problem when the infobox becomes larger than the size of a page (or the remainder of a page).

Is there a way to have boxed text automatically overflow into boxed text on the following page?

My current method for making boxes is this:

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 \framebox[1.025\width]{ \parbox[t]{6in}{ test }}

Alternately, the float package allows the creation of floating boxes, or similarly putting the text into a figure environment. I prefer having my infoboxes anchored to to the point I insert them, though.

Anyway, is there any way to do something similar that would automatically start a new box on the next page with the leftover content?

Thanks very much,
Flip

[localghost]

[...] Is there a way to have boxed text automatically overflow into boxed text on the following page? [...]

You could try the framed package. It does what you want.


Best regards
Thorsten¹