Skribe User Manual

The function frame embeds a text inside a frame. The function color may also use the same purpose when it is specified a bg option. This is why both functions are included in the same Skribe manual section.

3.9.1 Frame

prototype
`(frame [:ident] [:class "frame"] [:width] [:margin 2] [:border 1] node...)`
option	engines	description
ident	html latex xml	The node identifier.
class	html latex xml	The node class.
width	html latex	The width of the frame.
margin	html latex	The margin pixel size of the frame.
border	html latex	The border pixel of the frame.
argument		description
`node...`		The items of the enumeration.
See also
`color` `table`

Example:

(center (frame :width 10. :margin 10 (p [This is a frame.])))

Ex. 11: The frame markup

Produces:

This is a frame.

3.9.2 Color

The color markup enables changing locally the text of the document. If the bg color is used, then, color acts as a container. Otherwise, it acts as an Ornaments3.4.

prototype
`(color [:ident] [:class "color"] [:bg] [:fg] [:width] [:margin] node...)`
option	engines	description
ident	html latex xml	The node identifier.
class	html latex xml	The node class.
width	html latex	The width of the frame.
margin	html	The margin pixel size of the frame.
bg	html latex	The background color
fg	html latex	The foreground color
argument		description
`node...`		The items of the enumeration.
See also
`frame` `table`

Example:

(center 
   (color :bg "#aaaaaa"
      :margin 10
      :width 30.
      (center
         (color :bg "#eeeeee" :fg "blue" :width 100. :margin 10 [This is an
example of color box that uses a color for the 
background ,(emph "and") the ,(color :fg "red" "foreground"). It also specifies
a width, that is, an horizontal space, the text should 
span to.]))))

Ex. 12: The color markup

Produces:

This is an example of color box that uses a color for the background and the foreground. It also specifies a width, that is, an horizontal space, the text should span to.