General ⇒ Border Ornaments question

[Vikthor]

Hi there,

1) Where I could get samples of border ornaments or fancy documents and their corresponding codes.

2) How can I set up border ornaments in my documents?

I found the following code by Thierry Bouche, but I was unable to make it work:

\newlength\ornamentlength
\settowidth\ornamentlength{\fontsize{16pt}{16pt}\ornaments
qwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwe}%
\begin{picture}(0,0)
\put(-3.5,-7.5){%
\parbox{\ornamentlength}{\fontsize{16pt}{16pt}\ornaments
qwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwe\\[-3.5pt]
U\hfill u\\[-1pt]
............
U\hfill u\\[-1pt]
QWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWE}%
}%
\end{picture}%
Puis ta prose Romaine égale le doux style \\
De mon limé Saluste. Et quand des doctes S\oe urs\\
Sur ton papier lissé tu verses les douceurs,\\
Tu me fais souuenir du graue-doux Virgile,

[gmedina]

Hi Vikthor,

I've never used ornaments for my documents, but performing a search at CTAN I found the webomints set of files that could be useful (following the link you will find three .tex sample files). The README file contains information about the installation procedure.