Mark a section of any report which may be bordered and edged with specified gutter and border properties.

© 2pt border, colour=9, gutter=12pts
 nlBeginBlock'Secondblock' 2 9 12

The argument gives ...

• Block name (required if we want to use it in a RainPro chart)
• Edge weight (default 0 for unedged) in pts
• Border colour (black is default) as a number
• Gutter (default half current typesize) to be allowed to the left and right of the text. Use the normal paragraph spacing (or call nlBump explicitly) to allow space top and bottom. Note that the gutter is allowed outside the normal frame width, so be careful with multi-column layouts. You may use indenting to ensure the gutter stays inside the frame width.
• Rounding in pts (default square corners) in both (x,y) directions

Named blocks get included as anchors in HTML/PDF output. The may also be included as ‘notes’ in any RainPro chart which allows you to make chart annotations of any complexity in NewLeaf and have them scaled to fit into a given region in your charts.

Once opened, a block remains open until closed with nlEndBlock. This draws the borders and marks the block as complete. If a block crosses a page boundary, it is automatically completed at the bottom of the page and re-opened at the top of the new page.

See also ...
nlEndBlock – complete a named block