reanor@cs.pitt.edu (11/13/90)
I am trying to immitate a format I found in one of my text books, "Computer Architecture: A Quantative Approach" (Hennesay and Patterson) for my questions and solutions. A typical question would be: ---------+ How can I typeset this particular EXAMPLE | question when I can't even | post to news without difficulty? | Answer | By learning news and then asking the | TeX people how they would do it. (the dashed lines and the "+" are used to simulate rules. Further more, the horizontal rule is thicker than the vertical one) My question is, how can I do this in LaTeX? I can get the words "Example" and "Answer" easily enough using \marginpar, but how do I get the rules? I've experimented with \newenvironment, and sticking \vrule's inside, outside, and next to minpages without much success. Does anybody out there have any suggestions? Jeff