Boxes

At its core, LaTeX puts things in boxes and then puts the boxes on a page. So these commands are central.

There are many packages on CTAN that are useful for manipulating boxes. One useful adjunct to the commands here is adjustbox.

• \mbox & \makebox		Horizontal boxes.
• \fbox & \framebox		Put a frame around a box.
• \parbox		Box with text in paragraph mode.
• \raisebox		Raise or lower text.
• \sbox & \savebox		Like \makebox but save the text for later.
• lrbox		Environment version of \sbox.
• \usebox		Print saved text.