CTAN upload notification: eqparbox
Date: August 2, 2004 2:36:40 PM CEST
On Mon, 2 Aug 2004 Scott Pakin submitted an update to his eqparbox
package:
> Name of contribution: eqparbox
> Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/eqparbox/
> Summary description: Create equal-widthed parboxes
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text:
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> LaTeX users sometimes need to ensure that two or more
> blocks of text occupy the same amount of horizontal
> space on the page. To that end, the eqparbox package
> defines a new command, \eqparbox, which works just like
> \parbox, except that instead of specifying a width, one
> specifies a tag. All eqparboxes with the same tag --
> regardless of where they are in the document -- will
> stretch to fit the widest eqparbox with that tag. This
> simple, equal-width mechanism can be used for a variety
> of alignment purposes, as is evidenced by the examples
> in eqparbox's documentation.
>
> Version 2.0 makes better use of TeX's memory, allows
> numbers and symbols to appear in tags, preserves fonts
> across \\ boundaries, and eliminates some incorrect
> \global prefixes.
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Thanks for the upload, I installed the new version.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
eqparbox – Create equal-widthed parboxes
LaTeX users sometimes need to ensure that two or more blocks of text occupy the same amount of horizontal space on the page. To that end, the eqparbox package defines a new command, \eqparbox, which works just like \parbox, except that instead of specifying a width, one specifies a tag. All eqparboxes with the same tag—regardless of where they are in the document—will stretch to fit the widest eqparbox with that tag. This simple, equal-width mechanism can be used for a variety of alignment purposes, as is evidenced by the examples in eqparbox's documentation. Various derivatives of \eqparbox are also provided.
| Package | eqparbox |
| Version | 4.1 |
| Maintainer | Scott Pakin |