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[Robert Lamar <address@hidden>]

Fellow TeXmacs users,

I am trying to develop a style which allows me to surround blocks of 
text with boxes.  Currently, the best way to do this seems to be to 
create a macro which inserts the text into a table of exactly one cell. 
 One example of code which does something like what I want is

-------------- begin example --------------

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.

<tabular|<tformat|<twith|table-lborder|.1pt>|<twith|table-rborder|.1pt>|<twith|table-bborder|.1pt>|<twith|table-tborder|.1pt>|<cwith|1|1|1|1|cell-hyphen|t>|<cwith|1|1|1|1|cell-width|1par>|<cwith|1|1|1|1|cell-hmode|min>|<table|<row|<\cell>
  Morbi suscipit. Mauris faucibus ligula vitae felis. In ligula libero,
  vestibulum vel, fringilla vel, facilisis at, neque. Donec lacinia.
  Phasellus viverra viverra turpis. Praesent eget augue. Aliquam vulputate
  augue at diam.
</cell>>>>>

Morbi cursus, dui quis posuere ullamcorper, dui mi elementum nibh, ut 
laoreet
lacus orci eget ante.

--------------- end example ---------------

My main complaint with this is as follows: when the text within the 
table takes up less than one line, all is well.  When the text wraps 
around to a second line, additional space is inserted before and after 
the table.  It appears to be the case that the paragraph above has 
inserted space before the table, and the paragraph within the table has 
inserted space above itself, but the table border has wrapped tightly to 
its contents instead of lying between these two spaces.

Accordingly, I have two questions:

1. Is there a way to insert negative space between paragraphs?

2. Is anyone here able to see a better way to accomplish my goal?

Ultimately, I do not think that tables will be robust enough for my 
needs, because it is not possible for them to break over tables, and I 
anticipate surrounding multiple pages of text in these boxes.  However, 
they should suffice for now.

My installation is TeXmacs 1.0.6.7 on Fedora Core 5.  Thanks for your 
help and attention.

Robert Lamar