Text Formatting ⇒ Colored boxes spanning over pages of defined width ...

[konrad]

Hi,

I want to put text into a colored box that spans over many pages. I tried the framed-Package and its shaded environment. But with this environment, I can not set the width of the box.
Does anybody know, how I can use a colored box over many pages, where I can set the width of the box as well as the padding of the text in the box?

Thanks
Konrad

[gmedina]

Hi,

you can define your own environments using the features provided by the framed package. Take a look at the following simple example:

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\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{lipsum}% just to generate some text
\usepackage{framed}
\usepackage{xcolor}

\renewenvironment{shaded}{%
  \def\FrameCommand{\fboxsep=\FrameSep \colorbox{blue!60}}%
  \MakeFramed {\FrameRestore}}%
 {\endMakeFramed}

\newenvironment{shadedi}{%
  \def\FrameCommand{\fboxsep=\FrameSep \colorbox{blue!60}}%
  \MakeFramed {\advance\hsize+2\width\FrameRestore}}%
 {\endMakeFramed}

\newenvironment{shadedii}{%
  \def\FrameCommand{\fboxsep=\FrameSep \colorbox{blue!60}}%
  \MakeFramed {\advance\hsize-7\width\everypar{\parshape 1 1.8cm 4cm}\FrameRestore}}%
 {\endMakeFramed}

\begin{document}

\begin{shaded}
  \lipsum[1-10]
\end{shaded}
\lipsum[1]
\begin{shadedi}
  \lipsum[1-10]
\end{shadedi}
\lipsum[1]
\begin{shadedii}
  \lipsum[1-10]
\end{shadedii}
\lipsum[1]

\end{document}

[konrad]

Thank you very much ... that's it!