{boxes} are the units used by (La)TeX to construct a page by pasting them together horizontally or vertically. A single character from a font is a box, as are the lines of type and the eventual page.

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listings caption gray box meaning of code

Some time ago I copied this code from Stackexchange to have a nice gray box at the top of my imported source code which I displayed with listings: \DeclareCaptionFont{white}{\color{white}} ...
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Box or sidebar for additional text

I'm not sure of the name of what I need. I would like to set some text in a box or sidebar, as I've seen in some textbooks. The main text will refer the reader to the sidebar for more details. I would ...
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Globally set the justification in a framed box

I want to show the text from a Python Interpreter in a Windows console. This should be plain text (like you see in a command line terminal). I also want to show Python code snippets with highlighting. ...
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How to scale a dirtree inside a figure?

I drew a tree structure with \dirtree. This tree is located in a {figure} environment. It is possible to adjust the size of the figure? With \includegraphics one can do it with scale. Is there a ...
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algorithm2e with boxruled gives overfull hbox

I am using the algorithm2e package with the boxruled option to format my pseudo-code. However, I am getting an overfull hbox, which I suspect is due to margin/box conflicts. Does anyone have a fix ...