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
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" wknight8111@gmail.com said:
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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---- Mike.lifeguard mikelifeguard@fastmail.fm
On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Mike.lifeguard mikelifeguard@fastmail.fm wrote:
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
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