makebox.sty
===========

Define a \makebox* command that does the same as a \makebox command 
while the width is given by a sample text instead of an explicit length
measure.


Copyright 2000--2004 Harald Harders

This program can be redistributed and/or modified under the terms
of the LaTeX Project Public License Distributed from CTAN
archives in directory macros/latex/base/lppl.txt; either
version 1 of the License, or any later version.



Installation:

automatic: - run make
	   - run make install
	 or
           - run make
           - copy makebox.sty to a place where LaTeX can find it
           - run texhash or the corresponding command of your distribution

by hand: - execute latex on makebox.ins
         - copy makebox.sty to a place LaTeX can find it
         - run texhash or the corresponding command of your distribution
         If you also want to re-compile the documentation which should not
         be necessary do the following items, too:
         - execute:
           pdflatex makebox.dtx
           pdflatex makebox.dtx
           makeindex -s gglo.ist -o makebox.gls makebox.glo
           makeindex -s gind.ist makebox
           pdflatex makebox.dtx
         - copy makebox.pdf to the documentation tree of your 
           TeX implementation
         - run texhash or the corresponding command of your distribution, 
           again


2004/07/31
Harald Harders
h.harders@tu-bs.de