Adding a border around text

[Andrew Whitworth]

I have a few templates on Wikibooks that are designed to show some
text with a border around it or with a different background color, to
set it apart from the rest of the text. This is used for Examples,
Questions, Sidenotes, Vignettes, etc. None of the templates we have
now seem to generate borders/background colors in generated PDF files
or printed books. Is there a way to offset text like this from normal
paragraph text? If not, can one be added?

--Andrew Whitworth

[Mike.lifeguard]

Probably http://code.pediapress.com/wiki/ticket/284

(I wish they would use bugzilla - far more user-friendly. It took me
like 5 minutes to find this.)

-Mike

On Sat, 8 Nov 2008 11:15:17 -0500, "Andrew Whitworth"

Post by Andrew Whitworth
I have a few templates on Wikibooks that are designed to show some
text with a border around it or with a different background color, to
set it apart from the rest of the text. This is used for Examples,
Questions, Sidenotes, Vignettes, etc. None of the templates we have
now seem to generate borders/background colors in generated PDF files
or printed books. Is there a way to offset text like this from normal
paragraph text? If not, can one be added?
--Andrew Whitworth
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[Andrew Whitworth]

On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Mike.lifeguard

Post by Mike.lifeguard
Probably http://code.pediapress.com/wiki/ticket/284

Thanks Mike, I was trying all the wrong things, the more simple
solution ended up being the right one.

What I'm trying to do now is write a few substitute templates for
common formatting templates that I have been using. I've noticed some
of the "basic" ones we're relying on don't come out so nicely in the
PDFs. I want to make sure things come out as nicely as possible so
this whole book thing really starts catching on.

--Andrew Whitworth