# [OS X TeX] box in forms

Alain Schremmer Schremmer.Alain at verizon.net
Wed Jan 12 00:42:56 EST 2005

1. I am trying to make a box like in a text form to be filled, as in:
some text  [   Box  ]   some text. If nothing else, I can always use

$\underline{\overline{|\hspace{15mm}|}}$

but ugly.  So, I looked into boxes.

First I tried

\framebox[\height + 10mm]{}

after the example on page 861 of Companion 2ed but I could not figure
how to increase the height of the box. It seems \height refers to the
height of the text and \height + 10mm is then the width of the box.

After some other attempts with fbox etc, I tried to use fancybox with
the example on top of page 597 of Companion 2ed.

\cornersize{0.7pt}
\begin{picture}(110,40)
\put(25,20{\oval(50,40)}
\put(85,20pt){makebox(2,3){Test}}
\put(85,20){fancyoval(50,40)}
\end{picture}

The console said

!Illegal unit of measure (pt inserted)
{
l18\put(85,20pt){makebox(2,3){Test}}
?

I entered pt after all numbers but but to no avail.
When I do "r Enter" in the console, I do get the pictures but
superimposed over neighboring text plus some strange disalignment on the
next page.

2. I am also trying to do something similar in a math form. The
following did just what I wanted:

\begin{displaymath}
\frac{\bigcirc^{2}-13}{\bigcirc-2}
\end{displaymath}

but then I tried to give an example with

\begin{displaymath}
\frac{\ding{'260}^{2}-13}{\ding{'260}-2}
\end{displaymath}

and, while the console didn't protest, the circled 5 just doesn't show.

Regards
--schremmer
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