CTAN upload notification: pbox

Robin Fairbairns Robin.Fairbairns at cl.cam.ac.uk
Mon Apr 7 14:17:57 CEST 2003


my upload daemon doth wink slyly and saith:

> A submission was uploaded to /anfs/ctan-inc/upload-20030407.001/.
> 
> The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
> 
> Name of contribution: pbox
> Name and email: Simon Law
> Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/supported/pbox/
> Summary description: A variable-width \parbox
> License type: GNU Project
> 
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The \pbox command is a variable-width version of the \parbox
> command, but the specified width is the maximum value.  The box
> tries to be just as wide as its actual contents.  As well, this
> package provides commands to determine a \pbox's width.
> 
> If you are looking for a variable-width minipage, try the varwidth package.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

i've installed the package as directory
macros/latex/contrib/supported/pbox; thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team



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