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I'm building a command to mark long texts & class them in other part of my document (with help of Malipivo). I managed to do it with collect, multido & mdframed packages. The excellent advantage of mdframed is that you can easily handle four possible cutting of a text on several pages: single, first, middle or second part. This is extraordinary for automatic commands.

So, now, I have a problem I don't solve alone :

  1. Following these opportunities, I want to change left lines by curly braces : just old curly braces like in symphonic scores or Diderot's encyclopedia, braces which start from the top of the marked text & coming down… (In truth, I'd use hooks, parens or angle to, like in the Andrew Swann's answer here, and with different levels like in the first Qrrbrbirlbel's answer, but with a more classic brace's style).

Here are two other issues that are less important, but if you find simple solutions… :

  1. How to work in mdframed, tikz option (maybe I don't need tikz), with two side pages ? I'm only using the leftmargin, but I'd rather use the outermargin… Exist a twoside-mode man p.9, but I don't understand how to use.
  2. With mdframed, I work nether in the real page margin, always in the text width. I'd like to put my lines, mark text, braces & other, outside in the real margin without affecting the text in its width. An idea ?

Here my MWE (For tikz, I use the example 5 of the third document p.5 named : position a specific symbol at line, but maybe I don't need tikz for what I want ?) :

% !TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode % !TEX TS-program = arara \documentclass{scrbook} \usepackage{fontspec,collect,multido,lipsum} \newcounter{extrait}\newcounter{fiche}% for my automatic command \usepackage[framemethod=tikz,usetwoside]{mdframed} \usetikzlibrary{calc,arrows} \tikzset{warningsymbol/.style={rectangle, fill=white, scale=1, overlay}} % here begin my automatic command using collect, counter, & mdframed \newcommand\histoire[2]{\addtocounter{fiche}{1}\definecollection{his\thefiche} \def\histo{\path let \p1=(P), \p2=(O) in ($(\x2,0)+{0.5}*(-1,\y1)$)}% this is my use of TIKZ (\histo is to simplify later) \mdfsetup{hidealllines=true, leftline=true, leftmargin=0em,innertopmargin=0em, innerbottommargin=0em, innerrightmargin=1.5em, innerleftmargin=0.5em,% firstextra={\histo node[warningsymbol] {\rotatebox[origin=c]{90}{#1 …}};},% secondextra={\histo node[warningsymbol] {\rotatebox[origin=c]{90}{… #1}};},% middleextra={\histo node[warningsymbol] {\rotatebox[origin=c]{90}{… #1 …}};},% singleextra={\histo node[warningsymbol] {\rotatebox[origin=c]{90}{#1}};}} \begin{mdframed} {\begin{collect*}{his\thefiche}{}{}{\minisec{Extrait \addtocounter{extrait}{1}\theextrait : #1}}{}#2\end{collect*}} \end{mdframed}}% end of my command \begin{document} \chapter{Tests} \histoire{A}{\lipsum[1-3]}\lipsum[4] \histoire{B}{\lipsum[5-7]}\lipsum[8] \histoire{C}{\lipsum[9-16]} \chapter{Restitutions} \multido{\i=0+1}{\thefiche}{\setcounter{fiche}{1}\addtocounter{fiche}{\i}\includecollection{his\thefiche}} \end{document} % arara: xelatex % arara: xelatex

This is the actual situation (in red, an example what I hope on the page 1, imagine a similar brace, longer, in the second page) :

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  • decorations.text can draw braces. But I'm not sure if that's what you want.... Commented Sep 21, 2015 at 3:12

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Here's an option using tcolorbox instead of mdframed; this version takes care of all three requirements:

  1. Uses braces.
  2. Braces are placed on the outer margin.
  3. The box has a width equal to the \textwidth; the braces are in the margin area.

The code:

\documentclass{scrbook} \usepackage{fontspec,collect,multido,lipsum} \usepackage{changepage} \strictpagecheck \newcounter{extrait} \newcounter{fiche} \usepackage[framemethod=tikz,usetwoside]{mdframed} \usepackage[many]{tcolorbox} \usetikzlibrary{calc,arrows,decorations.pathreplacing} \newtcolorbox{tcbdecor}[1]{ check odd page, breakable, colback=white, boxrule=0pt, colframe=white, arc=0pt, outer arc=0pt, top=0pt, bottom=0pt, enhanced jigsaw, oversize, overlay={ \ifoddpage \draw[decoration=brace,decorate,line width=1pt] (frame.north east) -- node[rotate=270,above=4pt] {... #1 ...} (frame.south east); \else \draw[decoration={brace,mirror},decorate,line width=1pt] (frame.north west) -- node[rotate=90,above=4pt] {... #1 ...} (frame.south west); \fi }, } \newcommand\histoire[2]{% \addtocounter{fiche}{1}% \definecollection{his\thefiche}% \begin{tcbdecor}{#1} \begin{collect*}% {his\thefiche}{}{}% {\minisec{Extrait \addtocounter{extrait}{1}\theextrait : #1}} {} #2 \end{collect*}% \end{tcbdecor}% } \begin{document} \chapter{Tests} \histoire{A}{\lipsum[1-3]}\lipsum[4] \histoire{B}{\lipsum[5-7]}\lipsum[8] \histoire{C}{\lipsum[9-16]} \chapter{Restitutions} \multido{\i=0+1}{\thefiche}{\setcounter{fiche}{1}\addtocounter{fiche}{\i}\includecollection{his\thefiche}} \end{document}

The result:

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A zoomed-in image showing one of the boxes on an odd numbered page:

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A zoomed-in image showing one of the boxes on an even numbered page:

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If you want brackets instead, simply change the overlay section to

 overlay={ \ifoddpage \draw[line width=1pt] ([xshift=-5pt]frame.north east) -- (frame.north east) -- node[rotate=270,above=4pt] {... #1 ...} (frame.south east) -- ([xshift=-5pt]frame.south east); \else \draw[line width=1pt] ([xshift=5pt]frame.north west) -- (frame.north west) -- node[rotate=90,above=4pt] {... #1 ...} (frame.south west) -- ([xshift=5pt]frame.south west); \fi },

With the above example, one now gets

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on an odd numbered page, and

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on an even numbered one.

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