RE: How to have a box drawn across the page?

["Didier PH Martin" <martind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Philippe


Philippe said:
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<--------- usable page width ------------>

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             | HEADLINE |
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So I have tried several options for the paragraph flow object as for
the box flow object with no success.

Didier answer:
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If the backend is rtf (is it?) then I did a small test script and I got what
you require. Here is a sample script below (please do not try some
characteristics like background-color, it won't work - I am playing it with
on my system - so , they actually exist only on my machine as experimental
stuff :-) ) - see that the display-area is reversed, the container is the
box not the paragraph. I am investigating if this is a funny code side
effect or if this is OK. Anyway, it works with rtf. I got exactly what you
want (as shown in the picture below) - please tell me if this is for rtf or
mif (for my records in exchange to helping you. I keep a complete notebook
of users needs for OpenJade and DSSSL-2 - thanx in advance)

<--------- usable page width ------------>

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|              HEADLINE                  |
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code sample:
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<!DOCTYPE style-sheet PUBLIC "-//James Clark//DTD DSSSL Style Sheet//EN">
<style-specification-body>

(define (rgb r g b)
  (color (color-space "ISO/IEC 10179:1996//Color-Space Family::Device RGB")
r g b))

(define white-color (rgb 1 1 1))
(define veju-color (rgb 0.9 0.9 1))
(define red-color (rgb 1 0 0))
(define green-color (rgb 0 1 0))
(define blue-color (rgb 0 0 1))


(root
    (make simple-page-sequence
	    (process-children)
    	)
)

(element par
    (make box
        display: #t
	  box-type: 'both
	  box-size-before: 12pt
  	  line-thickness: 5pt
	  start-indent: 15pt
	  box-border-alignment: 'center
	  background-color: green-color
	  (make paragraph
		quadding: 'center
       	(process-children)
	   )
	)
)
</style-specification-body>


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