[Tex/LaTex] edit the minimum length of \hfill

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Once again I have a pretty special problem: I'd like to edit the minimum length of \hfill. According to de.wikibooks it is a TeX primitive. Therefore, I assume, that it can't be edited.

What is it for? I want to squeeze several boxes into one \textwidth no matter what. It should be similar to \mbox{}, but not broader than the textwidth.

There is a possibility the make this by counting the boxes and use \hspace with a (maybe) negative value which is calculated by the number of boxes. But this would be pretty complicated and requires an aux-file.

MnWE for explanation:

%This box should not be wider than \textwidth. It must be squeezed to \textwidth
\mbox[\textwidth]{ %There is no such instruction \mbox[width]{content}
\parbox{0.5\textwidth}{some Text}
\hfill
\parbox{0.5\textwidth}{some Text}
\hfill
\parbox{0.5\textwidth}{some Text}
}
%to fit, hfill must be -0.25\textwith, but it refuses to get negative, so this box will be wider than the text area.

Best Answer

\hss "horizontal shrink/stretch" will shrink to negative sizes if needed or stretch as much as needed, as requested in comments.

\documentclass{article}


\begin{document}

\begin{flushleft}
\makebox[\textwidth][s]{%%%%
\parbox{0.5\textwidth}{some Text}%%%%
\hss
\parbox{0.5\textwidth}{some Text}%%%%
\hss
\parbox{0.5\textwidth}{some Text}%%%%
}
\end{flushleft}

\end{document}

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While not relevant to the solution presented, but only to your MWE, the use of the newly created \singlelipsum command is to avoid the \par that otherwise accompanies the end of a \lipsum.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{environ}
\usepackage{mdframed}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{calc}
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\NewEnviron{MyEnvironment}[1][]{%
    \begin{mdframed}[
        frametitlebackgroundcolor=brown!25,
        frametitlerulecolor=blue,
        frametitlerulewidth=1.0pt,
        backgroundcolor=yellow!25,
        #1
    ]
  \tabcolsep=0pt\relax
  \begin{tabular}{cp{\textwidth}}\mystrut{#1}&
    \BODY
  \end{tabular}
    \end{mdframed}
}
\def\mystrut#1{\rule[\heightof{\strutbox}-\MinimumHeight+\headerheight{#1}+\dH]{0ex}
  {\MinimumHeight-\headerheight{#1}-\dH}}

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