LaTex noob here. Im looking for a simple way to make a box in latex that won't expand to fit the text. I have been trying to use a minipage within a fbox but it keeps expanding. I have been trying to make a 3in by 5in box
[Tex/LaTex] Making set length text box
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To get you started, and following Jan's suggestion of using fancybox, you could define an environment such as
\usepackage{fancybox}
\newenvironment{boxedlaw}[1]
{\begin{Sbox}\begin{minipage}{#1}\centering}
{\end{minipage}\end{Sbox}\begin{center}\shadowbox{\TheSbox}\end{center}}
...
\begin{boxedlaw}{5cm}
XYZ's Law
\end{boxedlaw}
And really have a look at the documentation from this package for further suggestions as well as other styles of boxes.
A simple way to do this is to use \fbox{Dummy} with a \resizebox{<width>}{<height>}{<content>}. Maybe playcing the \fbox on the outside.
It is even easier and more flexible with my adjustbox package, e.g.:
\adjustbox{margin=1em,width=.9\textwidth,set height=10cm,frame,center}{Dummy}
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{adjustbox}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\lipsum[1]
\begin{figure}[!t]
\centering
\adjustbox{margin=1em,width=\textwidth,set height=4cm,set depth=4cm,frame,center}{Dummy}
\caption{Dummy}
\label{fig:dummy}
\end{figure}
\lipsum[2-3]
\end{document}
Best Answer
The following code uses the
fittinglibrary of thetcolorboxpackage to create a3inby5inbox with never expands this size. The text content is rescaled to fit into this box.This output for the last four boxes is: