General ⇒ Simpler Combination of Boxes

[hzmonte]

I have a my_fig.tex as follows:

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\begin{figure}[tp]
\centering
\mbox{\input{my_code.tex}}
\caption[...]{....}
\end{figure}

and a my_code.tex as follows:

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\fbox{\footnotesize
\parbox{1.5in}{\tt
\begin{tabbing}
...
\end{tabbing}
}}

I suspect that the combination of \mbox, [url=http://latex-community.org/know-how/424-latex-reference-manual#g_t_005cfbox-and-_005cframebox]\fbox[/url], and \parbox may be redundant. So I removed \parbox but then I got an error. (How) can I remove one or two of these "boxes"?

[localghost]

The \mbox in the first example is superfluous. The \parbox in the second is mandatory because \fbox expects something that allows line breaks in this case.


Remarks:

• Do not use commands like \tt because that's obsolete LaTeX2.09 syntax. The correct LaTeX2e syntax would be \ttfamily for the font style.

Thorsten