boxes
Does anyone know how to produce a half-box symbol in LaTeX which comprises a bar over an entire expression and a vertical line on the right meeting in the corner, like the top and the right edge of a box?
I currently use \overline{abc}\vert as a compromise (say, abc is the text I wish to enclose) but clearly the bar and the vertical line do not meet each other in the top-right corner.
Thanks
The v0.8 of adjustbox from 2011/11/14 has now a \stackbox[<hor>][<vert>]{<content>} macro (and a matching stackbox environment and stack key). It accepts vertical and horizontal alignment and uses the varwidth package internally.
To remove the usual skip between lines, you can use \baselineskip=0pt at the begin and \par at the end. I might add an option for this later.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{adjustbox}
\begin{document}
surrounding text
\fbox{\stackbox[r][t]{something\\something else\\foo}}
surrounding text
surrounding text
\fbox{\stackbox[l][b]{something\\something else\\foo}}
surrounding text
surrounding text
\adjustbox{stack=cc,fbox}{something\\something else\\foo}
surrounding text
% No interline skip:
surrounding text
\fbox{\stackbox[c][b]{\baselineskip=0pt something\\something else\\foo\par}}
surrounding text
\end{document}
You can use a minipage inside a \fcolorbox; the wrapfigure environment from the wrapfig package can be used to let the text wrap around the box; inside the minipage, the positioning for the image and the title can be achieved using, for example, \parboxes. In the following example I defined a new environment mybox with the help of the environ package; the mandatory argument is used for the title of the box:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[verbose]{wrapfig}
\usepackage{bclogo}
\usepackage{environ}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\NewEnviron{mybox}[1]
{\wrapfigure{r}{.5\textwidth}
\setlength\fboxrule{1.5pt}
\fcolorbox{blue!70}{white}{%
\begin{minipage}{\dimexpr\linewidth-2\fboxsep-2\fboxrule\relax}
\parbox[t][1cm][t]{1cm}{\bccrayon}%
\parbox[t][1cm][t]{\dimexpr\linewidth-1cm\relax}{\bfseries#1}
\BODY
\end{minipage}}%
\endwrapfigure}
\begin{document}
\begin{mybox}{The Title}
\lipsum[2]
\end{mybox}
\lipsum[1-3]
\end{document}
Since the environment uses the wrapfig package, the idiosyncrasies of wrapfig apply here too (refer to the package documentation for details).
Best Answer
You probably want an actuarial symbol annuity. One of the solutions is the following macro, taken from ftp://ftp.mackichan.com/swandswp30/support/actuarial.tex, with the usage
{\bx argument}:If it will not be used in such a context, some modifications are needed, in particular remowing
\scriptstylebefore an argument.