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From: reanor@cs.pitt.edu
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Margin rule
Keywords: latex, rules, margin notes
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Date: 12 Nov 90 20:36:52 GMT
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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