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<H2 CLASS="section"><A NAME="htoc111">B.13</A>&#XA0;&#XA0;Lengths, Spaces and Boxes</H2><UL>
<LI><A HREF="manual035.html#toc87">Length</A>
</LI><LI><A HREF="manual035.html#toc88">Space</A>
</LI><LI><A HREF="manual035.html#toc89">Boxes</A>
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<H3 CLASS="subsection"><A NAME="toc87"></A><A NAME="htoc112">B.13.1</A>&#XA0;&#XA0;Length</H3><P>All length commands are ignored, things go smoothly when L<sup>A</sup>T<sub>E</sub>X syntax is
used (using the <CODE>\newlength</CODE>, <CODE>\setlength</CODE>, etc. commands,
which are null macros).
Of course, if lengths are really important to the document, rendering
will be poor.</P><P>Note that T<sub>E</sub>X length syntax is not at all recognized. As a
consequence, writing things like <CODE>\textwidth=10cm</CODE> will clobber
the output.
Users can correct such misbehavior by adopting L<sup>A</sup>T<sub>E</sub>X syntax, here
they should write
<CODE>\setlength{\textwidth}{10cm}</CODE>.</P><H3 CLASS="subsection"><A NAME="toc88"></A><A NAME="htoc113">B.13.2</A>&#XA0;&#XA0;Space</H3><P>
The <CODE>\hspace</CODE>, <CODE>\vspace</CODE> and <CODE>\addvspace</CODE> spacing
commands and their starred versions recognize positive explicit length
arguments. Such arguments get converted to a number of non-breaking
spaces or line breaks.
Basically, the value of <CODE>1em</CODE> or <CODE>1ex</CODE> is one space or one
line-break. For other length units, a simple conversion based upon a
10pt font is used.</P><P>H<FONT SIZE=2><sup>E</sup></FONT>V<FONT SIZE=2><sup>E</sup></FONT>A cannot interpret more complicated length arguments
or perform negative spacing.
In these situations, a warning is issued and no output is done.</P><P>Spacing commands without arguments are recognized.
The <CODE>\enspace</CODE>, <CODE>\quad</CODE> and <CODE>\qquad</CODE> commands output
one, two and four non-breaking spaces, while the <CODE>\smallskip</CODE>,
<CODE>\medskip</CODE> and <CODE>\bigskip</CODE> output one, one, and two line
breaks.</P><P>Stretchable lengths do not exist, thus the <CODE>\hfill</CODE> and
<CODE>\vfill</CODE> macros are undefined.</P><H3 CLASS="subsection"><A NAME="toc89"></A><A NAME="htoc114">B.13.3</A>&#XA0;&#XA0;Boxes</H3><P>Box contents is typeset in text mode (<EM>i.e.</EM> non-math and non-display
mode).
Both L<sup>A</sup>T<sub>E</sub>X boxing commands <CODE>\mbox</CODE> and <CODE>\makebox</CODE>
commands exist.
However <CODE>\makebox</CODE> generates a specific warning, since H<FONT SIZE=2><sup>E</sup></FONT>V<FONT SIZE=2><sup>E</sup></FONT>A
ignore the length and positioning instructions given as optional
argument.</P><P>Similarly, the boxing with frame <CODE>\fbox</CODE> and <CODE>\framebox</CODE>
commands are recognized and
<CODE>\framebox</CODE> issues a warning.
When in display mode, <CODE>\fbox</CODE> frames its argument by
enclosing it in a
table with borders. Otherwise, <CODE>\fbox</CODE> calls the <CODE>\textfbox</CODE>
command, which issues a warning and typesets its argument
inside a <CODE>\mbox</CODE> (and thus no frame is drawn).
Users can alter the behavior of <CODE>\fbox</CODE> in non-display mode by
redefining <CODE>\textfbox</CODE>.</P><P>Boxes can be saved for latter usage by storing them in <EM>bins</EM>.
New bins are defined by <CODE>\newsavebox{</CODE><I>cmd</I><CODE>}</CODE>.</P><P>Then some text can be saved into <I>cmd</I> by
<CODE>\sbox{</CODE><I>cmd</I><CODE>}{</CODE><I>text</I><CODE>}</CODE> or
<CODE>\begin{lrbox}{</CODE><I>cmd</I><CODE>}</CODE> <I>text</I> <CODE>\end{lrbox}</CODE>.
The text is translated to HTML, as if it was inside a <CODE>\mbox</CODE>
and the resulting output is stored.
It is retrieved (and outputed) by the command
<CODE>\usebox{</CODE><I>cmd</I><CODE>}</CODE>.
The <CODE>\savebox</CODE> command reduces to <CODE>\sbox</CODE>, ignoring its
optional arguments.</P><P>The <CODE>\rule</CODE> commands translate to a HTML horizontal rule
(<CODE>&lt;HR&gt;</CODE>) regardless of its arguments.</P><P>All other box-related commands do not exist.</P><HR>
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