[OS X TeX] box in forms

Claus Gerhardt gerhardt at math.uni-heidelberg.de
Wed Jan 12 09:40:33 EST 2005

I am not quite sure what you want to do with the box, but in amslatex
there exists the command \boxed{} to be used like
\boxed{\text{example of a box }\int_{\Omega}f(x)}

Claus

On Jan 12, 2005, at 6:42, Alain Schremmer wrote:

>
> 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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