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20 Boxes
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At its core, LaTeX puts things in boxes and then puts the boxes on a
page.  So these commands are central.

   There are many packages on CTAN that are useful for manipulating
boxes.  One useful adjunct to the commands here is 'adjustbox'.

\mbox & \makebox

Horizontal boxes.

\fbox & \framebox

Put a frame around a box.

\parbox

Box with text in paragraph mode.

\raisebox

Raise or lower text.

\sbox & \savebox

Like '\makebox' but save the text for later.

lrbox

Environment version of '\sbox'.

\usebox

Print saved text.