[Tex/LaTex] How to line-break a framed text box

framedline-breaking

Is it possible to line-break a framed text box in LaTeX? If so, is it necessary to use some package to do so, and what is the name of that package?

EDIT: For greater clarity, let me give an example. Suppose I am typing a line of text and I put a long word in a framed box at the end of this line. Because by default LaTeX will not line-break such a framed box it will stick out of the right margin of text. My question concerns the possibility of line-breaking this framed text box over to the left side of the next line. In this way, both the text and the frame itself would be line-breaked from the right side of the given line to the left side of the next line.

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I know only a trick, which works only manually:

\documentclass[12pt,a5paper]{article}
\usepackage{fbox}
\begin{document}

We look inside the alternate reality of the president’s 
Twitter account, where he absorbs and amplifies a 
noxious stream of disinformation.

We look inside the alternate reality of the \fbox[lbt]{presi-} \fbox[rbt]{dent’s} 
Twitter account, where he absorbs and amplifies a 
noxious stream of disinformation.

\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] Framed minipage of dependent dimensions

An environment form can be obtained as follows

\newsavebox\pptbox
\newenvironment{pptcomment}[2][]
  {\sbox\pptbox{\includegraphics[#1]{#2}}%
   \dimen0=\ht\pptbox
   \parbox{.5\textwidth}{\centering\usebox\pptbox}%
   \begin{lrbox}{\pptbox}\begin{minipage}[c][\dimexpr\dimen0-2\fboxsep\relax][c]
     {\dimexpr.5\textwidth-2\fboxsep\relax}}
  {\end{minipage}\end{lrbox}\fbox{\box\pptbox}}

and then used as

\begin{pptcomment}[page=4,scale=.3]{my_ppt}
The comment text that will be vertically centered
with respect to the image on its left
\end{pptcomment}

In other words, you pass the new environment the same parameters you'd pass to \includegraphics. However, setting scale is not recommended.

How does this work?

We allocate a new bin \pptbox for storing objects; the first use of it is for measuring the height of the image (\ht\pptbox, which is stored in the temporary dimension register \dimen0). Then we typeset the image in a \parbox so that it will be vertically centered with respect to other objects. Next we open lrbox, which is the "environment form of \mbox, storing the contents again in the \pptbox bin. This box consists of a minipage vertically centered ([c]), as high as \dimen0 (i.e., the height of the image) minus twice the clearance between a box and the frame (\fboxsep); the contents of this minipage will be centered with respect to the total height; finally the minipage will be as wide as half the textwidth. The contents of the environment is read in and then the bin is wrapped up (\end{lrbox}) and used inside \fbox.

It's best to use pptcomment inside a center environment, which can also be inserted directly in the environment:

\newsavebox\pptbox
\newenvironment{pptcomment}[2][]
  {\begin{center}
   \sbox\pptbox{\includegraphics[#1]{#2}}%
   \dimen0=\ht\pptbox
   \parbox{.5\textwidth}{\centering\usebox\pptbox}%
   \begin{lrbox}{\pptbox}\begin{minipage}[c][\dimexpr\dimen0-2\fboxsep\relax][c]
     {\dimexpr.5\textwidth-2\fboxsep\relax}}
  {\end{minipage}\end{lrbox}\fbox{\box\pptbox}
   \end{center}}

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