Best way to have a tikz-framed block of fully formatted text?

Asked Jun 23 '21 at 08:30

Active Jun 23 '21 at 08:52

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I am looking for an elegant way to frame text with ornamental frames, like in the image below. I can produce these in tikz using the pgfornament package, and I can technically add text inside as a label of a node, but as far as I can tell, this has limitations. Namely, trying to add a chapter or section declaration inside the node produces errors.

Currently I am drawing the full frame below the text and shifting it up via negative vspace, but this is very hacky and it feels weird. Any better suggestions for having fully-formatted text, including sections and the such, inside a tikzpicture?

EDIT: Bonus: how would you go about doing the same thing in a multicols environment, framing the whole page but not breaking the multicols?

edited Jun 23 '21 at 08:52

asked Jun 23 '21 at 08:30

Sotiris

A you aware of tcolorbox? – DG' Jun 23 '21 at 08:56
@DG' I was not, and that solves some other issues I have, but I don't think it solves the customizable elaborate borders I can get with pgfornament – Sotiris Jun 23 '21 at 09:05
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An example with tcolorbox and pgfornament: https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/162113/1952 – Ignasi Jun 23 '21 at 09:14

Best way to have a tikz-framed block of fully formatted text?

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