boxesframedmdframed
I want to draw a box (no rounded corners, keep it simple ^^) around one or multiple words. There are two special things: 1) the box should support line break and 2) the box should not cover multiple lines. I added a figure to make my requirements more clear. I tested fbox and all its derivates, but all of them create a paragraph for the framed word. Thank you!
The syntax is \myFloat[optArgs left]{text left}[optArgs right]{text right}{caption}{label} the last two can be empty.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{blindtext}% only for demo
\usepackage{xcolor,mdframed,caption}
\makeatletter
\def\myFLoat{\@ifnextchar[{\myFloat@i}{\myFloat@i[]}}
\def\myFloat@i[#1]#2{\@ifnextchar[%
{\myFloat@ii[#1]{#2}}%
{\myFloat@ii[#1]{#2}[]}}
\def\myFloat@ii[#1]#2[#3]#4#5#6{\par\medskip%
% \mdfsetup{innerleftmargin=10pt,innerrightmargin=10pt}%
\noindent\begin{minipage}[t]{0.475\textwidth}\leavevmode
\begin{mdframed}[#1]#2\end{mdframed}
\end{minipage}\hfill
\begin{minipage}[t]{0.475\textwidth}\leavevmode
\begin{mdframed}[#3]#4\end{mdframed}
\end{minipage}
\ifx\relax#5\relax\else\captionof{figure}{#5}\fi%
\ifx\relax#6\relax\else\label{#6}\fi\par}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\blindtext
\myFLoat[linecolor=blue,linewidth=2pt,backgroundcolor=yellow]{\blindtext}%
[linecolor=red,linewidth=3pt]{\blindtext}%
{my caption for this float}{myLabel}
as seen in my Figure~\ref{myLabel} it works.
\blindtext
\myFLoat[linecolor=blue,linewidth=2pt,backgroundcolor=yellow]{\blindtext}%
[linecolor=red,linewidth=3pt]{\begin{align}y=\int\limits_1^2 f(x)dx\end{align}}%
{my caption for this float}{myLabelB}
\end{document}
The framed or mdframed packages allow you to put text in frames. Here's a way to do what you want with mdframed.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{listings}
\lstset{extendedchars=true,
tabsize=3,
frame=none,
showspaces=false,
boxpos=c,
float=h,
escapechar=\%
}
\usepackage[style=1]{mdframed}
\newcounter{boxctr}
\DeclareCaptionType{boxx}
\usepackage{needspace}
\newenvironment{Boxx}[2]{%
\captionsetup{type=boxx}
\begin{mdframed}[%
linewidth=1pt,
roundcorner=10pt,%
leftmargin=.05\textwidth,
rightmargin=.05\textwidth,
skipabove=.7\baselineskip]%
\refstepcounter{boxctr}%
\label{#1}%
\gdef\boxxcaption{\caption{#2}}
\needspace{2\baselineskip}
}{%
\end{mdframed}%
\boxxcaption%
}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
This is a reference to Box~\ref{box:one}!
\vspace{1.5cm}
\lipsum[1-4]
\begin{Boxx}{box:one}{This is a caption}
\begin{enumerate}
\item One
\item Two
\item Three
\end{enumerate}
\end{Boxx}
\lipsum[1]
\begin{Boxx}{box:two}{This is also a caption}
\begin{lstlisting}
Also works with listings
\foo is escaped!
\end{lstlisting}
\end{Boxx}
\lipsum[2]
\end{document}
Boxes take two extra arguments: a label and a caption, just like the environment defined in the question.
They use the caption package's captioning magic. So this should make doing lists of boxes easier. The label should stick with the bottom of the box now. This might lead to some ugly whitespace, but other than making the boxes float, this is probably as good as it gets.
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A variation of
this answerto Highlighting arbitrary chunks of text connected to quotes in margins - Can this be done in TeX/LaTeX? . The boxed text can spann multiple lines, and hyphenation is allowed but no page breaks are allowed:Simply use
\MarkText{text...}; the thicknes of the rules used for the frame can be changed using\LineWidth(default value=0.4pt).