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Calculate parbox width to make it meet the page border?
I'm using the program package to typeset my algorithms. I want my comments to have a light gray background, therefore I'm using colorbox with a parbox inside (for multi-line comments).
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Measuring height of fixed-width text box
Suppose some text is put inside a fixed width box. The text will then continue in vertical direction. How can you measure the total height of that text?
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text text text text text
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Why doesn't \settoheight of \parbox work?
Consider the following code:
\documentclass[a4paper]{letter}
\usepackage{calc}
\usepackage{printlen}
\newsavebox{\foobox}
\newlength{\fooboxheight}
\savebox{\foobox}{
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