General ⇒ Determine size of words

[jphv]

Hello, I want to set a background color in a line, searching I found \colorbox.

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\colorbox{i6blue}{Get new frame}
 
 
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paints a boundigbox.

So, I tried:

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\colorbox{i6blue}{Get new frame\hspace{\textwidth}}
 
 
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but of course I need something else... How determine the size of "Get new frame"?

With the size I could write:

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\colorbox{i6blue}{Get new frame\hspace{\textwidth-\GetTheWidthOf{Get new frame}}}
 
 
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It's a primitive and not flexible aproach, but I'm newbie (in Latex/English).


Thanks in advance,
JP

[gmedina]

Hi,

you can use the \settowidth command to measure a given text:

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\documentclass{article}
\newlength\mylen{}
\begin{document}
\settowidth\mylen{text}
\the\mylen
\settowidth\mylen{text text text}
\the\mylen
\end{document}
 
 
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[jphv]

Thank you very much gmedina for you reply and example!!!

Now I have a beauty title