How does using makebox allow arbitrary placement of things on a page?
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What is it about using makebox that makes it disregard text body borders / margins, where other boxes respect the margins / text width and friends?
Allowing images outside of margin
Letting graphics overflow over page edgeDrawing lines across paper
Horizontal line spanning the entire document in LaTeXAligning things in margin with paragraph start How can I top align AND left align a box flush with the top of a paragraph?
I ask this because it seems like a magic box that you can just throw anything into and do whatever (same with parbox, I suppose). In TikZ, you have to use the overlay option. Is it due to something implicit like that?
positioning margins boxes
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What is it about using makebox that makes it disregard text body borders / margins, where other boxes respect the margins / text width and friends?
Allowing images outside of margin
Letting graphics overflow over page edgeDrawing lines across paper
Horizontal line spanning the entire document in LaTeXAligning things in margin with paragraph start How can I top align AND left align a box flush with the top of a paragraph?
I ask this because it seems like a magic box that you can just throw anything into and do whatever (same with parbox, I suppose). In TikZ, you have to use the overlay option. Is it due to something implicit like that?
positioning margins boxes
asked Oct 25 at 10:50
Jonathan Komar
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Withmakeboxyou can specify[<size>],[<alignment>], as well as{<content>}. When the size is specified, the content can spill out the sides, even as TeX thinks of the box as only be of the specified size. By throwing in clever use of left/center/right alignment, it provides a mechanism for typesetting stuff at distal locations to the "cursor location". Tryfbox{makebox[0pt][r]{This appears to the left}}. The box shows where TeX imagines the<content>to be.
– Steven B. Segletes
Oct 25 at 11:02
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Roughly equivalent tohbox to <width> {hss <contents> hss}. Core TeXhssis likehfill, only it can shrink.
– John Kormylo
Oct 25 at 13:28
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What is it about using makebox that makes it disregard text body borders / margins, where other boxes respect the margins / text width and friends?
Allowing images outside of margin
Letting graphics overflow over page edgeDrawing lines across paper
Horizontal line spanning the entire document in LaTeXAligning things in margin with paragraph start How can I top align AND left align a box flush with the top of a paragraph?
I ask this because it seems like a magic box that you can just throw anything into and do whatever (same with parbox, I suppose). In TikZ, you have to use the overlay option. Is it due to something implicit like that?
positioning margins boxes
asked Oct 25 at 10:50
Jonathan Komar
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What is it about using makebox that makes it disregard text body borders / margins, where other boxes respect the margins / text width and friends?
Allowing images outside of margin
Letting graphics overflow over page edgeDrawing lines across paper
Horizontal line spanning the entire document in LaTeXAligning things in margin with paragraph start How can I top align AND left align a box flush with the top of a paragraph?
I ask this because it seems like a magic box that you can just throw anything into and do whatever (same with parbox, I suppose). In TikZ, you have to use the overlay option. Is it due to something implicit like that?
positioning margins boxes
positioning margins boxes
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asked Oct 25 at 10:50
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Withmakeboxyou can specify[<size>],[<alignment>], as well as{<content>}. When the size is specified, the content can spill out the sides, even as TeX thinks of the box as only be of the specified size. By throwing in clever use of left/center/right alignment, it provides a mechanism for typesetting stuff at distal locations to the "cursor location". Tryfbox{makebox[0pt][r]{This appears to the left}}. The box shows where TeX imagines the<content>to be.
– Steven B. Segletes
Oct 25 at 11:02
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Roughly equivalent tohbox to <width> {hss <contents> hss}. Core TeXhssis likehfill, only it can shrink.
– John Kormylo
Oct 25 at 13:28
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Withmakeboxyou can specify[<size>],[<alignment>], as well as{<content>}. When the size is specified, the content can spill out the sides, even as TeX thinks of the box as only be of the specified size. By throwing in clever use of left/center/right alignment, it provides a mechanism for typesetting stuff at distal locations to the "cursor location". Tryfbox{makebox[0pt][r]{This appears to the left}}. The box shows where TeX imagines the<content>to be.
– Steven B. Segletes
Oct 25 at 11:02
1
Roughly equivalent tohbox to <width> {hss <contents> hss}. Core TeXhssis likehfill, only it can shrink.
– John Kormylo
Oct 25 at 13:28
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With
makebox you can specify [<size>], [<alignment>], as well as {<content>}. When the size is specified, the content can spill out the sides, even as TeX thinks of the box as only be of the specified size. By throwing in clever use of left/center/right alignment, it provides a mechanism for typesetting stuff at distal locations to the "cursor location". Try fbox{makebox[0pt][r]{This appears to the left}}. The box shows where TeX imagines the <content> to be.– Steven B. Segletes
Oct 25 at 11:02
With
makebox you can specify [<size>], [<alignment>], as well as {<content>}. When the size is specified, the content can spill out the sides, even as TeX thinks of the box as only be of the specified size. By throwing in clever use of left/center/right alignment, it provides a mechanism for typesetting stuff at distal locations to the "cursor location". Try fbox{makebox[0pt][r]{This appears to the left}}. The box shows where TeX imagines the <content> to be.– Steven B. Segletes
Oct 25 at 11:02
1
1
Roughly equivalent to
hbox to <width> {hss <contents> hss}. Core TeX hss is like hfill, only it can shrink.– John Kormylo
Oct 25 at 13:28
Roughly equivalent to
hbox to <width> {hss <contents> hss}. Core TeX hss is like hfill, only it can shrink.– John Kormylo
Oct 25 at 13:28
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There is nothing special about makebox. If you go
parbox{1cm}{...}
then if ... is wider than 1in you will get an overfull box, but it is possible to make the text visually wider without being wider to tex, eg
parbox{1cm}{XXXXXXXXXXXhspace{-10cm}X}
is not overfull, despite the fact that the X will extend past the 1cm boundary of the box.
makebox is just a box with (if you use the length option) a specified width but glue added either side that can stretch or shrink an arbitrary amount so that the contents are always exactly the width of the box, even if they appear to extend past it.
answered Oct 25 at 14:03
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There is nothing special about makebox. If you go
parbox{1cm}{...}
then if ... is wider than 1in you will get an overfull box, but it is possible to make the text visually wider without being wider to tex, eg
parbox{1cm}{XXXXXXXXXXXhspace{-10cm}X}
is not overfull, despite the fact that the X will extend past the 1cm boundary of the box.
makebox is just a box with (if you use the length option) a specified width but glue added either side that can stretch or shrink an arbitrary amount so that the contents are always exactly the width of the box, even if they appear to extend past it.
answered Oct 25 at 14:03
David Carlisle
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There is nothing special about makebox. If you go
parbox{1cm}{...}
then if ... is wider than 1in you will get an overfull box, but it is possible to make the text visually wider without being wider to tex, eg
parbox{1cm}{XXXXXXXXXXXhspace{-10cm}X}
is not overfull, despite the fact that the X will extend past the 1cm boundary of the box.
makebox is just a box with (if you use the length option) a specified width but glue added either side that can stretch or shrink an arbitrary amount so that the contents are always exactly the width of the box, even if they appear to extend past it.
answered Oct 25 at 14:03
David Carlisle
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There is nothing special about makebox. If you go
parbox{1cm}{...}
then if ... is wider than 1in you will get an overfull box, but it is possible to make the text visually wider without being wider to tex, eg
parbox{1cm}{XXXXXXXXXXXhspace{-10cm}X}
is not overfull, despite the fact that the X will extend past the 1cm boundary of the box.
makebox is just a box with (if you use the length option) a specified width but glue added either side that can stretch or shrink an arbitrary amount so that the contents are always exactly the width of the box, even if they appear to extend past it.
answered Oct 25 at 14:03
David Carlisle
479k3811121847
There is nothing special about makebox. If you go
parbox{1cm}{...}
then if ... is wider than 1in you will get an overfull box, but it is possible to make the text visually wider without being wider to tex, eg
parbox{1cm}{XXXXXXXXXXXhspace{-10cm}X}
is not overfull, despite the fact that the X will extend past the 1cm boundary of the box.
makebox is just a box with (if you use the length option) a specified width but glue added either side that can stretch or shrink an arbitrary amount so that the contents are always exactly the width of the box, even if they appear to extend past it.
answered Oct 25 at 14:03
David Carlisle
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answered Oct 25 at 14:03
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answered Oct 25 at 14:03
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With
makeboxyou can specify[<size>],[<alignment>], as well as{<content>}. When the size is specified, the content can spill out the sides, even as TeX thinks of the box as only be of the specified size. By throwing in clever use of left/center/right alignment, it provides a mechanism for typesetting stuff at distal locations to the "cursor location". Tryfbox{makebox[0pt][r]{This appears to the left}}. The box shows where TeX imagines the<content>to be.– Steven B. Segletes
Oct 25 at 11:02
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Roughly equivalent to
hbox to <width> {hss <contents> hss}. Core TeXhssis likehfill, only it can shrink.– John Kormylo
Oct 25 at 13:28