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The LaTeX fancybox package

Version: 3.x, 4.x, 5.x - Scientific WorkPlace & Scientific Word

The fancybox package provides several different styles of boxes for framing and rotating content in your document. Fancybox provides commands that produce square-cornered boxes with single or double lines, boxes with shadows, and round-cornered boxes with normal or bold lines, such as these:

The boxes can contain words, lines, paragraphs, or whole pages, and the boxes can be centered or right- or left-justified. Note that the TrueTeX Previewer provided with SWP and SW doesn't support rotation; you must use a different previewer and print driver if you want to rotate boxed content in a DVI file. However PDF viewers support rotation, so you can use the package to create rotated boxes in typeset PDF files in Version 5.x.

Package options aren't available for the fancybox package. Use encapsulated TeX fields to box information in your document.

How to box information in your document

1. Add the fancybox package to your document.
2. Enter an encapsulated TeX field.
3. Type \command{content to be boxed} where command is the fancybox command you need:
   

   Command	Effect
   fbox	square box
   shadowbox	square box with shadow
   doublebox	double square box
   ovalbox	thin oval box
   Ovalbox	thick oval box

4. Choose OK.

Package documentation includes useful information about using LaTeX box macros. The PackageSample-fancybox.tex file in the SWSamples directory of your program installation contains more examples of fancybox effects. The package is installed in the TCITeX/TeX/LaTeX/contrib/fancybox directory.

Last revised 07/15/05

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