if there is anybody interested in helping Thomas to turn his work into a package could he or she contact him? frank ------- start of forwarded message (RFC 934 encapsulation) ------- From: Reuben Thomas <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Cc: [log in to unmask] Subject: latex/2502: Dashed boxes Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 17:31:13 +0200 (MET DST) >Number: 2502 >Category: latex >Synopsis: Dashed boxes >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: Team (The LaTeX Programming Team) >State: open >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: unknown >Arrival-Date: Fri May 30 17:31:11 1997 >Originator: >Organization: >Release: >Environment: >Description: >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: I hope that this request is not importunate: In the course of my work I have developed some sets of LaTeX macros. Most are of limited applicability, although I hope to find the time eventually to tidy them up, document them and release them. However, one set might well be widely useful (if they have not been developed already): I have developed some commands analagous to \fbox and \framebox that draw dashed boxes. Also, I have developed commands that work rather like shadow box, but rather than drawing a shadow, draw partial boxes, so that an effect rather like a stack of cards is obtained: _________ | |_ | | | | | | | | | |_________| | |_________| I am not an experienced LaTeX programmer, and lack the time and expertise to document these macros and tidy them up for release. Also, they are probably rather inefficient at the moment, being implemented in a mixture of LaTeX and TeX, as I used whatever commands I needed to get them to work, but tried to do it in the simplest way, using LaTeX packages such as ifthen and calc. Finally, it would be good if any bugs could be removed (I'm not aware of any, but some probably exist), and if the macros could made consistent with built-in LaTeX commands (again, I've tried to do this, but have probably failed). What I'd like, in essence, is to turn the macros over to someone who is willing to do this work so that they can be made available to the entire LaTeX community. The task would probably be quite short for an expert. - -- http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rrt1001/ | maxim, n. wisdom for fools ------- end -------