Re: \parbox, \framed, ... (was: Strange behaviour of \bTABLE ... \eTABLE)

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Mojca Miklavec wrote:

>1.) I saw \hbox, \vbox, \vtop, \lbox, \cbox, \rbox, \sbox, \tbox,
>\bbox on page 106 of cont-eni.pdf. But if I understand it properly,
>there's no alternative to LaTeX \parbox command.
>1.1.) After grep-ing the LaTeX tree for "\parbox", my disk ran out of space
>1.2.) \bTABLE ... \eTABLE seems too complicated to me to be used for
>such a simple thing as asking for a paragraph of a certain width,
>centered with regard to the current line.
>  
>
as always, it's \framed that does the trick:

\input tufte  \framed[location=middle,align=center]{what\\is a\\parbox} 
\input tufte

Hans

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