I'm creating a custom command which basically prints an horizontal line, a character and another horizontal line. The code would be
\newcommand{\breaknote}{\noindent\rule[.5ex]{.5\textwidth}{.4pt}\S\rule[.5ex]{.5\textwidth}{.4pt}}
Obviously, this goes further than the text margins, throwing a Overful \hbox
error.
The question is: is there a way to get the width of a single character and then use this number or store it in a variable like, say, \charwidth
? What I want to achieve is something similar to
\newcommand{\breaknote}{\noindent\rule[.5ex]{.5\textwidth - .5\charwidth}{.4pt}\S\rule[.5ex]{.5\textwidth - .5\charwidth}{.4pt}}
This way it would fit like a charm. I am aware that I could look at the error string and get from there the actual text overflow (in pts) thus reading the character length but I was wondering if there's something cleaner.
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