How can I insert a newline in a framebox?

Question

I have several frameboxes in my document, using the following command:

\framebox(115,115){ R-Sq: \newline For example} 

I want to force a new line, but neither \newline or \\ appear to work. Is there any other way of doing this?

Answer 1

TH. has suggested putting the framebox around another box, but specifying the size can be awkward. Here's my (note: plug) solution to the problem:

\usepackage{minibox}
...
\framebox(115,115){\minibox{R-Sq:\\ For example}}

A ‘minibox’ is exactly equivalent to a tabular in the current implementation; I just wanted the shorter markup. I've considered adding frames to the minibox package but haven't had the chance to look at it yet.

Answer 2

@celenius One way to insert a newline in a framed box using \\ (\newline itself does not work with this method), using just the amsmath package and without defining a parbox, is to use boxed with array. For example:

\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\begin{document}
\boxed{
\begin{array}{clr}
\textrm{short line}\\
\textrm{long line containing a relatively large number of characters}\\
\textrm{short line again}
\end{array}}
\end{document}

Answer 3

If you dig through the chain of macro expansions, you see that \framebox(x,y)[z]{text} ends up typesetting text in an \hbox.

So you can use this.

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\framebox(115,115){%
    \parbox{115\unitlength}{R-Sq:\\For example}%
}
\end{document}

Where all I've done is put the input inside an appropriately sized \parbox.