Page Layout ⇒ Starred Version of the '\makebox' Command

[kornaros]

When I write

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\makebox[1\width][l]{To ensure that white space is produced even at points in the document where line breaking takes place, one should replace \hspace by \hspace*}

the produced text-box does not break to the next lines!!! Is it possible to write a \makebox* command that breaks to more lines and respect hyphenation?

Thanks!

Charis

[localghost]

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\parbox{\textwidth}{To ensure that white space is produced even at points in the document where line breaking takes place, one should replace \hspace by \hspace*}

Thorsten

[kornaros]

Parbox is not useful because the text does not continues normally! Please have a look at the following example

To ensure that white space is produced even at points \parbox{\textwidth}{To ensure that white space is produced even at points in the document where line breaking takes place, one should replace hspace by hspace*} similar when we need horizontal...

%%% the text goes out of the page....!!
I would like a "local" makebox (i.e. into some paragraph) so that the the text outside of the box flows (runs) "normally" with the text in the box. My English is poor so I hope you to understand what thing I am talking about...

Thanks

Charis

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Charis,

My English is poor so I hope you to understand what thing I am talking about...

perhaps explain with code, if writing English is difficult. Most of the people here understand code. In the post above I don't see what is the "example", there's just a \parbox{...}{...} surrounded by normal post text. I don't see if this outer text should be code too.

Stefan

[kornaros]

Please try the following code to see yourself the result of \parbox!

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\documentclass{article}
    
\begin{document}
To ensure that white space is produced even at points
\parbox{\textwidth}{To ensure that white space is produced even
at points in the document where line breaking takes place, one should replace
hspace by hspace*} and as you see this parboxed text goes outside text...!!!!
\end{document}

[cgnieder]

I'm not sure I understood what you want (a minimal working example and/or a picture might have been helpful). I guess, though, that you want something like this?

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{wrapfig}
\usepackage{kantlipsum} % create dummy text
\begin{document}

\begin{wrapfigure}[6]{r}{5cm}\itshape
 ``Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given
 free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing''
\end{wrapfigure}
\kant[1]

\begin{wrapfigure}[7]{l}{5cm}\itshape
 ``Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given
 free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing''
\end{wrapfigure}
\kant[2]

\end{document}

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Regards

[kornaros]

Thank you all for your replies!
Your answers is not exactly what I am talking about... I try to write a version of \makebox (let us say \makebox*) so that \makebox*{some text here} respects

1. Hyphenation rules of the document language
2. it will respect line breaking i.e.

If there no more horizontal space left then the "some text here…" will continue to the next line! So if , for example, I write

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\makebox*[1.5\textwidth][s]{This is my first sentence}
\makebox*[1.5\width] {This is my second sentence}
\makebox*[1\width] {This is my third sentence}

then the result will be a normal text except that: The “This is my first sentence” will be spread 1.5\width in length and the “This is my second sentence” will be spread only 1.5\textwidth in length! and the last This is my third sentence will be a normal spread sentence. That is, the first sentence will be more spread out that the second one (at a specific amount!)

Anyway thank you very much for your replies.