CTAN update: eqparbox

the daemon wrote: > Name of contribution: eqparbox > Author's name: Scott Pakin > Package version: 4.0 > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/eqparbox/ > Summary description: Create equal-widthed parboxes > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > LaTeX users sometimes need to ensure that two or more blocks > of text occupy the same horizontal space on the page. To > that end, the eqparbox package defines \eqparbox, > \eqmakebox, \eqframebox, and \eqsavebox macros and an > eqminipage environment. These work, respectively, just like > the \parbox, \makebox, \framebox, and \savebox macros and > the minipage environment, except that instead of specifying > a width, one specifies a tag. All boxes with the same tag > -- regardless of where they are in the document -- will > stretch to fit the widest box that uses 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 4.0 is a major improvement that now supports boxes > containing lists and boxes containing multiple paragraphs. > It also provides a new eqminipage environment and some new > macros for imposing minimum and maximum widths on boxes > (\eqsetminwidth, \eqsetminwidthto, \eqsetmaxwidth, > \eqsetmaxwidthto). > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thanks for the upload (and sorry about the delay in this message -- i was away on family business, remote from any network connection). i have installed the new version and updated the catalogue repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.ctan.org/pkg/eqparbox > or they may browse the package directory at > http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/eqparbox/ Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team