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Boxes and more boxes PDF Print E-mail
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LaTeX - General
Written by Ivan Pagnossin   
Thursday, 19 March 2009 20:49

Boxes are a key concept in TeX/LaTeX as well as an useful tool, though not a very well known one. I believe this is due to the success of LaTeX in providing a high level interface to TeX, which allows the user to produce beautiful documents without getting acquainted with the concept of boxes. But it is useful to know the box concept because it enhances our understanding of TeX, helps us to avoid and solve problems and even can propose solutions for unusual circumstances. In this paper we reproduce, step by step, the reflection effect in the title of this job (PDF version below) in order to gain some knowledge of the box concept.

This paper was written in LaTeX and contains some resources that are difficult to reproduce using HTML and CSS (at least for me). For this reason, the paper is available for downloading in the links below. If you use Adobe Reader 6.0 or newer, choose the first link. If not, use the second one.

Comments

avatar Kuzmenko
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Interesting and useful article.
Monday 23 March 2009, 15:09
avatar julianagiordano
+3
 
 
A very important concept
Tuesday 24 March 2009, 18:00
avatar stefanie
0
 
 
I can't open the pdf's, apparently the site is down...
Monday 06 April 2009, 11:47
avatar irpagnossin
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It is fixed. Thanks.
Friday 24 April 2009, 22:17
avatar musterknabe
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A very short but also very insightful article. The references are precise and complete. Thanks for this treat and congratulations.
Saturday 27 June 2009, 23:11
avatar Milan
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Great article! Thanks!
Tuesday 04 May 2010, 08:15
avatar artimess
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Very nice tutorial, but unfortunately cannot the examples working. It would be nice to post the original tex file that the pdf is being created from
Sunday 27 June 2010, 17:36
avatar irpagnossin
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Hi artimess. The source files (.tex and figure) can be downloaded here:

http://stoa.usp.br/irpagnossin/files/2506/13839/boxes.7z" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://stoa.usp.br/irpagnossin/files/2506/13839/boxes.7z.

Please let me know if you find any mistakes, ok?
Tuesday 27 July 2010, 02:49
avatar irpagnossin
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Oh! Please choose the second link above... I don't know what happened! :)
Tuesday 27 July 2010, 02:51
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