[Ipe-discuss] create white box (multiple lines) which adapts to the text width?

[Tim Hutt]

You can't make objects track other objects. I think the best you can do is
use the paragraph tool, and then draw the background box manually.

Or write an ipelet...
On Oct 26, 2011 11:16 AM, "elwood151" <elwood151 at web.de> wrote:

>
> I want to place text information on top of a photograph.
> For better visibility of the text I'd like to create a white rectangle with
> the black text above.
> Linebreaks in the text shall be possible and the rectangle should
> automatically adapt to the size of the text.
>
> How can I achieve that?
>
> If I use a minipage element in IPE, I have to define its width manually.
> In a normal "label" I can not use a \newline command.
> and how could I create the white rectangle in the box?
>
> I think this is easy with LaTeX but I do not see how to do it at the
> moment.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Martin
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